I am probably getting too picky about repartitioning my drive but I want it to
be set up for a long time. I never use all the space in my harddrive even
though it is relatively small. (I only use it for work and don't play any
games.)
Questions......
My old setup
sda1 / 1g sda5 /swap 1024k (512ram) sda6 /usr 6g sda7 /home 10g
I will be using Sourcemage which puts sources in /var so I have been thinking about taking 3g out of home and making a /var of 3g.
I will probably take another 3 out of home and add it to usr/ but that is probably overkill. Neither use too much.
I am confused about where /swap should go. I have a SCSI drive and from what I
read that should be on the outside. So should I put /swap at sda8? (Given
that I have added /var.)
I had a /home because it was convenient to upgrade with CD's when I only had a
56 modem. Now that I am using a source based installation is the /home
unnecessary as I am the only user.
Is having a /tmp partition necessary?
Questions of the sort you pose here are hard to answer because they do not really have "right" answers. The best partitioning strategy for a specific system depends on the anticipated uses for that system, the distro involved, specifics of its hardware, and probably yhe personal style of the person who will admin it.
My own preference, just as an example, is to minimize partitioning, to avoid later needs to repartition when my needs change. So for a 1-drive system, I typically do something like this --
hda1 = small (50 MB or so) partition, mounted at /boot
hda2 = midsize (256-1024 MB) partition, used as swap
hda3 = rest of disk, mounted as / (root partitionj)Sometimes I use a 4-partition setup, varying the above as
hda3 = between 10 GB and 20 GB, mounted as /
(depends a lot on the size of the drive, of course)
hda4 = rest of disk, mounted as /homeBut even there I have systems that depart from those rules ... and, of course, multi-drive systems get more complex. But I never find it desirable to set up separate partitions for /usr, /var, and /tmp ... I've found that making them separate just introduces more opportunities for things to go wrong.
That's just me, though ... this is an area where reasonable people come to different comculsions about the best approach.
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