I would say a lot of it depends on how you want to approach your backup
strategy.
I have the luxury of having a lot of secondary storage so my partitions are
as\
follows:
hda5 / 500 Mb # / can be backed up separately and, if I
# reinstall is 1 of 2 partitions that
actually
# need to be reformated, saving the rest of
my
# work and data from the usual destruction
of
# a re-installation
hdb1 /usr 1.5 Gb # The second of the two partitions
# affected by reformatting
# on a re-install
hdb2 /usr/local 1.5 Gb # From here on I can leave these partitions
hdb3 /var 1.5 Gb # alone, they do not need reformatting on a
hdb5 LinuxSwap 128 Mb # a re-installation
hdb6 /home 2 GB
hdb7 /r-and-d 1.5 GB
hdb8 /misc1 1.5 GB
hdb9 /misc2 1.5 GB
How you partition your available drive space is very dependent on your
expected
usage and things like your back-up strategy and, of course, the ocassional
need
to re-install. This set up is by no means perfect but I pass it on to you
just
to give you some idea of some of the rationale that goes into planning your
file
system. For example, I could have made /etc a separate partition but chose
not
to as the quantity of files here is not too great. However, I use a
separate
backup strategy for this as I am continually hacking away at various
configuration
files and it would be nice to have spare copies because I'm damned if I can
ever
remember what changes I've made and in what files. :)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joel VanderWerf
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 3:06 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Why do RPMs always install into /usr, not /usr/local?
>
>
>
> Hi, everybody,
>
> When I partitioned my disk, I assumed that the basic installation from
> CDROM #1 would go to /bin, /lib, /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /usr/man, .... and
> that additional "optional" packages (from CD #2-5 and from the web)
> could go to /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, ....
>
> So I made three partitons:
> / 2Gb
> /home 6Gb (with /usr/local symlinked to /home/local)
> /var 250Mb (with /tmp symlinked to /var/tmp)
>
> Basic installation would
>
> The idea was that if I needed to reinstall over my boot partition, all
> my /usr/local stuff would be safe (as would /home files, of course). I'd
> rather not have to download and install all that stuff again. Also, I
> could install another Linux distro and it would be able to see the
> partiton with all my installed apps and my home files.
>
> But as I look at packages in kpackage, I see that they all go into
> /usr/bin, /usr/man, ....
>
> So I tried using rpm with the --relocate option, but the package I chose
> apparently was not relocatable.
>
> Are most packages non-relocatable?
>
> How have other people dealt with this situation?
>
> Should I go back to a one partition model? Or keep the current 3
> partition model, but put all of /usr in its own partition, perhaps with
> /home symlinked into it?
>
> Thanks for any advice!
>
> --
>
> Joel VanderWerf
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
