Courtesy bcc to Neal also....
"Neal Lippman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am wondering what advice and/or thoughts people might have regarding disk
> partitioning for a brand new install. I have just finished assembling the
> hardware, and have a fully blank and unformatted 45GB disk, and I'd like to
> plan out my partitions before starting on the install.
>
> I was figuring
> - a small boot partition to contain /boot
> - a /home partition for /home
> - a /var partition so that log files, etc, are limited and the disk cannot
> get flooded by logs if there are mail spam attacks or something like that
> - a /tmp partition for temp files - large enough that i can create the
> images for cd's prior to burning, so it will need to be at least a few GB
> - a /vmwin98 partition for a vmware parition to contain a win98 virtual
> machine install (for Quicken and Word, which I still need to use)
> - a root partition to contain /, of course, and all of its usually stuff
> including /usr, with mount points for /home, /var, /tmp, /boot, /vmwin98
>
> I cannot make up my mind regarding another partition that is either FAT16 or
> FAT32 for a bootable windows install. I've been planning to run windows only
> under vmware, but then I got to thinking that maybe I might need a way to
> boot into windows for some reason or another...
Its a bit tricky (and I forget how I did it!), but you can get vmware
to use a pre-existing (bootable) w98 partition.
> Any one with pointers or advice on this scheme, how large to make each
> partition, etc?
You may want to add another partition for a test '/', for upgrading or
trying things that you have an idea may break you badly...
lets see.
/boot - 20 M (way more than you'll ever need, but hey, its a tiny percentage! ;-)
/home - 5Gig (you DON'T want to see my home dir!)
/var - 1G (just a guess)
/tmp - 3G (you want to have an ISO image, why not also have the original tree also?)
/vmwin98 - 2G (can you REALLY install all that crud in 2G?)
/root - 3 to 5G (yeah, you can easily make that in 1-2 gig, but why squeeze?)
/root2 - 3 to 5G (your test root partition)
total: up to 21Gig.
Adjust the sizes up from there to fit your own preferences. (I'd much
rather have EXTRA space than have to move things around because I
ran OUT! (been there, done that, real pain))
I also have a /usr/src partition on some of my machines, but that's only
for those with limited disk...
rc
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