As always it is good to read your advice. I have learned much from this list and much from you.
Cordially, S. Barret Dolph On Monday 26 January 2004 00:42, Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 09:37 PM 1/25/2004 +0800, S. Barret Dolph wrote: > >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 /home > > But 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. > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
