On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote:
>
> I would suggest simply creating a swap partition of about 128MB and put
> the rest as one partition to start with. Play with Linux for about 6
> months, then look to see how much space you are using in /var and /usr
> then back the system up, repartition according to the ratios noted above
> and then restore.
>
This is a good suggestion, because it can vary a lot. For example my /var
is practically empty (maybe 20 megs) and always has been. It fits fine on
a 128M partition with the rest of /; then I have /usr, /home, /tmp, and
/cvs. /cvs is just another /tmp partition with a new name; these can be
handy. Mine is just to hold a bunch of source trees; our university server
has /scratch so students have a place to manipulate large quota-exceeding
files. /tmp is cluttered with system files and occasionally gets
cron-jobbed so you need a separate directory for this kind of thing.
>From the start though I'd put /home on a separate partition because you
can then reinstall without losing your data and personal configuration.
For my single-user system this is the one essential partition.
It absolutely depends on how you use your computer. There's no right way.
Havoc
