Hmmm,
well, having answered this one already a few days ago it looks to me as though
there may be some mileage in both a FAQ and an archive in a more formally
structured ng.
Anyway
here goes.
If you
have <128Mb memory it seems like a good idea to make swap partition = double
RAM.
You
certainly need a / partition, which can be pretty large and a /home partition
for users and their assorted personal/mail files does no harm either.
Say... anything from 10Mb upwards for /home?
A
/root partition is quite a good idea if you are going to be using more than one
kernel. This one can be limited to say 10Mb.
So
:
/swap
= 2 times Ram (unless you have large amounts of Ram
/home
= 10Mb or more depending on number of users and what personal
files/configurations they have
/root
= /10Mb say?
/ =
the rest.
From
all the good things being said about reiser in this ng it is worth considering
this format instead of ext2.
Ummmmm
oh yes, there is lots of information on this topic in already existing FAQs and
Howtos.
regards
Daryl
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gregg Black
Sent: 25 February 2001 22:09
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Linux partitioning
I'm reading up on setting up linux, and it states that many will setup separate partitions for /usr and /home besides ones swap space. I would like to ask you how you usually setup your partitioning. I was a little bit confused on it, for you at least need a mounting point of root. This is how I did it, but I'm not sure if it's how it should be done. I set one partition for about 3/4 of the drive as '/'. I thought that would cover my separate partition for /usr as well as the mount point. My second partition and about 1/4 of the drive (not all, as the last is for swap) I set as mount point /home. Then of course the remaining 256 megs I set for swap.
At first I was going to create a 7 meg partition just for mounting root, then the larger 3/4 approx for /usr, and then the last primary for /home but I thought it just made more sense to make just a / and /home partition. Maybe I'm just not thinking about this correctly. Any suggestions would be appreciated!
I'm using mandrake 7.2
-Gregg
