Red Hat 5.0 had a good example in their installation guide on partition sizes
for a full install. I wish I had not given that package away. I see people
recommending / to be 500 megs. That is way too much. It does not improve
performance at all. More memory and more swap to match are what speeds things
up, everything else being equal.
-----Original Message-----
From: Lothar Mandrake [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 4:09 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] /usr or /root?]
>Steve,
> If his only partitions for linux (other than swap) are / and
/usr (I
>believe
>he meant/ rather than /root),
Yes, that is indeed what I meant. I am sorry that I expressed
myself
so badly.
>won't /opt be inside the / partition? That's
>the usual place for te third party software, like SO he's thinking of
>using.
>Might that not make / fill up more quickly.
That is my concern. Are there any figures avaiable on how much
space
is taken up in every file system in the default installation? What I
mean
is, are there any numbers for how big the /, the /usr, the /etc, the
/opt,
the /var etc. partitions absolutely have to be in order to accomodate a
full
installation, everything included?
>Perhaps a separate /opt and /home
>might help. any thoughts?
>Mike
>
Perhaps I should make separate /etc, /var, /opt, /usr, /, and so
on,
for every file system? I'd feel pretty silly if I had made one
partition
too small and eventually had to reformat and reinstall the entire
system,
just because a partition turned out to be too small. That is why I want
to
do this right from the beginning.
Some of the applications I plan to install I guess will end up in
/usr.
I thought this was where all third-party software was installed, but
apparently some will end up in /opt? Is this true? In that case
perhaps I
should make a separate /opt instead of a separate /usr?
I am grateful for all help.
Ian
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