On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote:
> I have a 20gb drive, and am already running Micro$oft Windows 98.
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> Although a newbie to Linux, I know PCs very well, and have worked in the
> industry for several years.
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> My question is this, I have about 6-8GB to give over to Linux, and I would
> like to know what the best way to bust it up for partitioning and
> mounting; IE I would like a list of partition sizes and mount points that you
> fairly efficient for a utilitarian machine. In learning Linux, I want to
> dabble in everything, and tinker with it all, including a web server at
> some point. Nothing large-scale or fancy, just a setup that will give me
> enough room to play around.
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> Thanks,
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> Steve Olson</bold>
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You need a little partition /boot; a little /root; also a little /swap.
On the opposit, /usr, /usr/local, /var, /opt and /home need to be fairly big,
/tmp needn't be enormous.
You best have them each on separated partitions, so that, when you upgrade or
reinstall you can preserve what you have formerly installed. (when you upgrade,
you change essentially /usr and may be /usr/var
My configuration, after several insttallations, is:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 251M 53M 184M 22% /
/dev/hda1 3.0G 816M 2.2G 27% /mnt/win
/dev/hda5 15M 931k 13M 6% /boot
/dev/hda7 1004M 47M 905M 5% /var
/dev/hda8 3.0G 1.4G 1.4G 49% /usr
/dev/hda9 1011M 156M 804M 16% /opt
/dev/hda10 509M 104M 380M 21% /home
/dev/hda11 525M 72M 426M 14% /tmp
I do not think it is perfect, but, as the we all know, so nobody is.
