On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 18:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to install the 10.1 release of Mandrake on my new notebook. I > would like to partition my HD so I will not have to format partition with > my data each time I try to fully reinstall linux distribution. > > My question is, how I should partition my HD and what directories should be > on which partition?
Here's how my 60Gb laptop, mostly desktop and developement work, is partitioned up for Mdk10.1: /mnt/winxp ntfs 6Gb /mnt/winshare vfat 1Gb /boot rfs 200Mb /opt rfs 0.5Gb /var rfs 1.5Gb /tmp rfs 1Gb swap swap 768Mb / rfs 0.5Gb /usr rfs 7.5Gb /home rfs 2Gb /mnt/share rfs 35.5Gb Where rfs = reiserfs, said by many to be the best journallng system for partitions with lots and lots of small files, but I don't want to start a fs flame-war here, either reiser of ext3 will do. The major points are: 1) You should keep /tmp seperate to prevent rougue programs filling up your entire drive with tmp files, but keep it large enough for CD burning a full iso image. 2) Make /home as big as you (and any other users) need it. I keep my very personal files, like letters and tax and stuff on /home to keep from prying eyes, but everything else like mp3's and photos and GIS data goes on /mnt/share for everyone to use. When I do re-install, they are the only partitions that don't get nuked. These are getting so full, I'm contemplating an external 80Gb 2.5" usb2 drive to farm some files off to (not to mention the 40 CD's of files already in the cupboard :-) 3) /var keep seperate if you're doing any messing around with web and mail servers and stuff like that, especially if you are serving to the internet. Size for ever how big you need to serve, I've been trying different CMS systems lately, so it's about 1Gb used. Otherwise it can go on / . 4) The rest could probably just go under a single / partition, but I keep them separate so that I don't fill the entire drive with junk in /usr and cause space shortages when I really need it in / (I'm forever trying out new stuff and never uninstalling, bad I know :-) My 7.5Gb /usr is 99.9% full, so if you install lots of games from contrib/plf, you may want an extra 0.5Gb, otherwise it can be 2-3Gb smaller if you don't install the games or many other packages. /opt isn't much used by Mdk so could definately be on one partition with /, and the /boot I only have separate for historic reasons when Win4Lin couldn't boot from reiser. So a "sane" partition config for a single-user geek/tinkerer/developer (like me), leaving plenty of room for growth, on a 20Gb or bigger drive could look like: /var 2Gb /tmp 1Gb swap whatever required / 1.0Gb /usr 8.0Gb /home 2Gb (or more for extra users) /mnt/share whatever's left over For an average single-user desktop/letters/surfing/games type person (like my Dad or sister), a config could be: /tmp 1Gb swap whatever required / 8.0Gb to 10Gb /home 2Gb (or more for extra users) /mnt/share whatever's left over These are generous sizes (some might say too generous), but disk space is cheap, and you can size as you see fit. It's the reasoning behind the partitioning that I hope you find useful. Cheers! John.
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