Re: Partition sizes - again...

1997-04-28 Thread Carl Privitt
On Apr 24, Rick Jones wrote Anyway. I've never even thought of running Linux across partitions so if anyone has a good layout for root - usr partitions I would be appreciative. I use the following layout on 5 Debian boxes. All of my machines have either 16 or 32 megs of memory. One of

Re: Partition sizes - again...

1997-04-28 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Carl Privitt wrote: /var 64MB /tmp 64MB I've found on a box with a few hundred users, you had better allocate a LOT more for /var. I mounted a 1 Gig drive as /var, and gave the users a 5 MB quota on the filesystem. I also put 300 MB on /tmp... Of course,

Partition sizes - again...

1997-04-24 Thread Rick Jones
I know this was asked not too long ago. I ignored it since I didn't intend on putting Win95 back on my computer. That changed since wine doesn't yet support some software I need to use. Anyway. I've never even thought of running Linux across partitions so if anyone has a good layout for root -

Re: Partition sizes - again...

1997-04-24 Thread Edward McKnight
.) HTH, --emk Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:20:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Partition sizes - again... Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org I know this was asked not too long ago. I

Re: Partition sizes - again...

1997-04-24 Thread Dima
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: ... 4) Do some creative addition or multiplication to calculate how much additional space to alot in each partiton beyond present usage (crystal ball-land.) In particular, think about apps that use /tmp -- gcc does, and if your /tmp is on small root