Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > /tmp2gig
> /tmp get used only during boot and such and like boot, doesnt usually
> require a seperate partition. If you are going to provide a seperate
> partition, it could be alot smaller. 512Mb should be enough
If you burn CDRs (an
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 05:44, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On 25 Feb 2003 16:11:48 +
> Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > /tmp 2gig
>
> > /tmp get used only during boot and such and like boot, doesnt usually
> > require a seperate partition. If you are going to provide a seper
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 15:24:49 +
John Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any way to cut a long story short I have come up with the following, and
> would appreciate thoughts and guidence.
Others have commented on your choices and offered their own ways of doing
things. Here's one more.
On 25 Feb 2003 16:11:48 +
Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > /tmp2gig
> /tmp get used only during boot and such and like boot, doesnt usually
> require a seperate partition. If you are going to provide a seperate
> partition, it could be alot smaller. 512Mb should b
On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 9:23 pm, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 18:15, John Anderson wrote:
> [...]
>
> > Well I recently tried out Mondo, and it filed the / partition and killed
> > the machine it was using /tmp, probably due to new stupid user (me)
> > however I don't want that to e
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 18:15, John Anderson wrote:
[...]
> Well I recently tried out Mondo, and it filed the / partition and killed the
> machine it was using /tmp, probably due to new stupid user (me) however I
> don't want that to ever happen again, so will most likely end up with say 2
> Cd's
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 19:15, John Anderson wrote:
> Well I recently tried out Mondo, and it filed the / partition and killed the
> machine it was using /tmp, probably due to new stupid user (me) however I
> don't want that to ever happen again, so will most likely end up with say 2
> Cd's worth
> > /boot 20meg
>
> Too small if you're into testing lots of different kernel sources,
> otherwise ok. Would make it 50 though just to be on the save side
Although with the size of hard drives nowadays, 20mb does seem small, I
don't know if it's "too small". Kernel sources don't go
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 08:24 am, John Anderson wrote:
> I am relatively new to Linux, been running Mandrake 9.0 for
> about a fortnight, and after lots of reading I have decided
> to move to Debian.
If you have enough space (which you do with 80 gb) it is a
good idea to reserve a group or pa
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On Tuesday 25 February 2003 08:11 am, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 15:24, John Anderson wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Any way to cut a long story short I have come up with the following, and
> > would appreciate thoughts and guidence.
> >
> >
On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 4:19 pm, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 16:24, John Anderson wrote:
> > Any way to cut a long story short I have come up with the following, and
> > would appreciate thoughts and guidence.
>
> I have long had multiple partitions too, but over time realized it's
On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 4:52 pm, Kent West wrote:
> John Anderson wrote:
> >Any way to cut a long story short I have come up with the following, and
> > would appreciate thoughts and guidence.
> >
> >/boot20meg
> >/4gig
> >/var 8gig
> >/tmp 2gig
> >/usr
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 17:19, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> I now have /boot 100 MB, / 30 GB (too big, but able to compile
> mozilla and openoffice.org and enough for a long time :)
Oh, wanted to include that since I don't have extra partitions, of
course my 30 GB for / includes space for /usr, /var, /tmp
John Anderson wrote:
Any way to cut a long story short I have come up with the following, and would
appreciate thoughts and guidence.
/boot 20meg
/ 4gig
/var8gig
/tmp2gig
/usr5gig
/swap ??? 750meg ram, and from what I have read it shoul
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 16:24, John Anderson wrote:
> Any way to cut a long story short I have come up with the following, and would
> appreciate thoughts and guidence.
I have long had multiple partitions too, but over time realized it's a
waste of space or time on a desktop. On a server it sure is
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 15:24, John Anderson wrote:
[...]
> Any way to cut a long story short I have come up with the following, and would
> appreciate thoughts and guidence.
>
> /boot 20meg
You dont usually need a seperate /boot partition. I have installed a few
linux machines and have
Hi, All
I am relatively new to Linux, been running Mandrake 9.0 for about a fortnight,
and after lots of reading I have decided to move to Debian.
I have a 80gig drive, and when I installed Mandrake, I let it have its
defaults for drive mapping which was .
/dev/hda1 mount / 5.3gi
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