Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-06 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 09:09:16AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: I was reading about swap recently and fell upon (like a sword) this remark from 2005 from Andrew Morton: Create the swapfile when the filesystem is young and empty, it'll be nice and contiguous. Once created the kernel will

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I was reading about swap recently and fell upon (like a sword) this > remark from 2005 from Andrew Morton: > > Create the swapfile when the filesystem is young and empty, it'll be > nice and contiguous. Once created the kernel will never add or > remove blocks. He's talking about swap

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 05/11/2018 à 00:10, Stefan Monnier a écrit : [ Sadly --resizefs doesn't work on a swap partition, AFAICT. ] Because there is no swap resizing tool. There is no "online" swap resizing tool, but `mkswap` should work to resize a (currently unused) swap. mkswap does not even qualify as an

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 05/11/2018 à 09:11, Rick Thomas a écrit : On Nov 4, 2018, at 1:19 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 04/11/2018 à 05:45, Andy Smith a écrit : So, if I were you, I'd be doing something like: - 512MiB /boot - 2 GiB swap, or 16GiB if you intend to use it as a hibernate device - Rest as LVM

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-05 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 08:34:41AM +, Curt wrote: I was reading about swap recently and fell upon (like a sword) this remark from 2005 from Andrew Morton: Create the swapfile when the filesystem is young and empty, it'll be nice and contiguous. Once created the kernel will never add or

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-05 Thread Curt
On 2018-11-04, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 04/11/2018 à 20:56, Stefan Monnier a écrit : I use LVM volumes for my swap space, which is yet another option, one that can be grown and shrunk easily, online. >>> You can resize a logical volume online, but AFAIK you cannot resize a swap >>>

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-05 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Nov 4, 2018, at 1:19 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Le 04/11/2018 à 05:45, Andy Smith a écrit : >> You're probably going to receive as many different opinions as there >> are different people responding, but my recommendation in nearly any >> situation is to have a reasonable /boot and

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> [ Sadly --resizefs doesn't work on a swap partition, AFAICT. ] > Because there is no swap resizing tool. There is no "online" swap resizing tool, but `mkswap` should work to resize a (currently unused) swap. Stefan

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 04/11/2018 à 20:56, Stefan Monnier a écrit : I use LVM volumes for my swap space, which is yet another option, one that can be grown and shrunk easily, online. You can resize a logical volume online, but AFAIK you cannot resize a swap area online (while in use) ; Indeed, in the general

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I use LVM volumes for my swap space, which is yet another option, one >> that can be grown and shrunk easily, online. > You can resize a logical volume online, but AFAIK you cannot resize a swap > area online (while in use) ; Indeed, in the general case you'll need to do it like: lvcreate

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 10:45:04AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: /swap, encrypted, 16GB (same as RAM) Hugely overkill. You do not need for your swap to be as large as your RAM unless you are intending to hibernate to disk. If you are intending to do that, fair enough, but if not, that's probably

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 04/11/2018 à 16:45, Stefan Monnier a écrit : Andy Smith writes: Seems excessive. Without service-specific data or /var, my servers generally use under 2GiB for /, so dedicating 40GiB to it is likely to be wasteful. IMO on a server setup service specific data should be stored in a

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
Andy Smith writes: I definitely stand by your recommendation of LVM and most of what you said, but you seem to assume a "server" context, whereas we're talking about a laptop, so there are a few differences: > Seems excessive. Without service-specific data or /var, my servers > generally use

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 04/11/2018 à 14:43, Andy Smith a écrit : On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 02:31:14PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 04/11/2018 à 13:53, Andy Smith a écrit : On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 10:19:59AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 04/11/2018 à 05:45, Andy Smith a écrit : Why don't you include the

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 03:20:11AM +, D Dimov wrote: Considering that I will be installing Debian 9.5 Stable on a new Dell laptop with 512 GB SSD and 16 GB RAM, and intend to also run Windows 10 as a virtual machine from the /home partition (so it doesn't get affected during kernel updates

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-04 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 02:31:14PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 04/11/2018 à 13:53, Andy Smith a écrit : > > > >On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 10:19:59AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >>Le 04/11/2018 à 05:45, Andy Smith a écrit : > >>Why don't you include the swap in LVM ? > > > >I don't

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 04/11/2018 à 13:53, Andy Smith a écrit : On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 10:19:59AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 04/11/2018 à 05:45, Andy Smith a écrit : Why don't you include the swap in LVM ? I don't see the point as it will never change in size. Why not ? You could decide that you don't

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-04 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 10:19:59AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 04/11/2018 à 05:45, Andy Smith a écrit : > Why don't you include the swap in LVM ? I don't see the point as it will never change in size. But in the case where encryption is used, it would have to be inside the

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 04/11/2018 à 04:20, D Dimov a écrit : Considering that I will be installing Debian 9.5 Stable on a new Dell laptop with 512 GB SSD and 16 GB RAM, and intend to also run Windows 10 as a virtual machine from the /home partition (so it doesn't get affected during kernel updates and upgrades),

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 04/11/2018 à 05:45, Andy Smith a écrit : You're probably going to receive as many different opinions as there are different people responding, but my recommendation in nearly any situation is to have a reasonable /boot and swap and then the rest of the space inside an LVM volume group.

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-04 Thread David Christensen
On 11/3/18 8:20 PM, D Dimov wrote: Considering that I will be installing Debian 9.5 Stable on a new Dell laptop with 512 GB SSD and 16 GB RAM, Dell Service Tag? and intend to also run Windows 10 as a virtual machine from the /home partition (so it doesn't get affected during kernel updates

Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

2018-11-03 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 03:20:11AM +, D Dimov wrote: > does this seem like an adequate space allocation: You're probably going to receive as many different opinions as there are different people responding, but my recommendation in nearly any situation is to have a reasonable /boot and

Re: Partition sizes in Squeeze

2010-05-23 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 22 mei 2010, at 20:09, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: I have a recent install of Squeeze on my laptop. I have setup my partitions according to Debian Installer's defaults for separated /root, /home, /usr, etc. partitions with LVM. I have installed a small number of packages over time.

Re: Re: Partition sizes in Squeeze (fstab contents)

2010-05-23 Thread Nima Azarbayjany
Thanks for your help. Following is the contents are my /etc/fstab file on the system. # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works

Partition sizes in Squeeze

2010-05-22 Thread Nima Azarbayjany
Hi all, I have a recent install of Squeeze on my laptop. I have setup my partitions according to Debian Installer's defaults for separated /root, /home, /usr, etc. partitions with LVM. I have installed a small number of packages over time. Today when I installed KDevelop (actually the only KDE

Re: Partition sizes in Squeeze

2010-05-22 Thread Freeman
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:39:21PM +0430, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: Hi all, I have a recent install of Squeeze on my laptop. I have setup my partitions according to Debian Installer's defaults for separated /root, /home, /usr, etc. partitions with LVM. I have installed a small number of

Variations of partition sizes (df)

2004-12-11 Thread ocl
Hi, Here is something I find quite peculiar. I have 2 boxes, one of which is called remotebox, the other 'localbox'. I have mounted a partition called '/data' of 'remotebox' on 'localbox' over shfs (SSH File System). 'remotebox' is RH9 (Shrike) 'localbox' is Debian 3.1 When I check for partition

Re: Partition sizes

2004-06-12 Thread David Balch
Cheers Patrick, that's helpful to know. There's no decent reason for the small partition sizes - just me not knowing what I'm doing :-/ Hey, if I changed the name from blue, I'd have to give it a paint job. You'll just have to live with it :-P Cheers, Dave. On 11/06/04 21:28, Patrick Lane

Partition sizes

2004-06-11 Thread David Balch
Hi, I think I need to change my hard drive partitioning on a testing install, and want to make sure I'm not missing something that would mean I didn't have to. Here's the situation... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux blue 2.4.25-1-386 #2 Wed Apr 14 19:38:08 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux [EMAIL

Re: Partition sizes

2004-06-11 Thread Patrick Lane
everything looks reasonable to me except that / is definitely too small and I generally allocate a lot more space to /tmp. Any reason in particular you're keeping it so small? I also usually have a /boot partition. btw, my box is named blue also, damned biter! =) On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 12:55,

Re: FileSystems, Partition sizes, LARGE files??

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 08:10:14AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. Is there a problem with setting the reserved blocks percentage 0% or should I set it to 1%? This reserved space is there so that a mere user cannot eat up all the space, leaving nothing for logs, temporary files, lockfiles,

Re: FileSystems, Partition sizes, LARGE files??

2004-01-21 Thread Katipo
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:10:14 + (GMT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I've added 4 WD 250Gig IDE 8MB cache hard drives to an existing IDE fileserver running an ABIT KT7-RAID mainboard with an AMD 1.4GHz CPU and 1 Gig of ram. There is currently 1 existing 120Gig hard drive containing

Re: FileSystems, Partition sizes, LARGE files??

2004-01-21 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 08:10:14AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. Where I'm only using large files, is the Block Size set to 4k by default ok or should it be changed higher or lower to 2k or 8k? Higher is better, but AFAIK on x86 you are limited to 4k 5. Should the number of inodes be

Re: Partition sizes...

2001-10-02 Thread Alexander Wallace
Thanks! I'll take that into consideration... Thanks again! On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, P Kirk wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:41:41PM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote: Hello there... I just bought a server that has 2 4gb hd... I want to install debian to make it a server, and probably add a 20 gb

Re: Partition sizes...

2001-10-02 Thread Alexander Wallace
Thank you for the response! The stuff you tell me gives me a good Idea of what to do, I still need to find out more about partitionin I guess since I don't know how I would share the 20 gb disk let's say between /opt and /home without creating an individual partition for each one Do you know

Re: Partition sizes...

2001-10-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:41:41PM -0500, Alexander Wallace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello there... I just bought a server that has 2 4gb hd... I want to install debian to make it a server, and probably add a 20 gb hd... My question is, what partition should I put in the big hd (the 20 gb)

Partition sizes...

2001-10-01 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hello there... I just bought a server that has 2 4gb hd... I want to install debian to make it a server, and probably add a 20 gb hd... My question is, what partition should I put in the big hd (the 20 gb) if I expect to host several websites and forums, I know I shouls put home there, but, if I

Re: Partition sizes...

2001-10-01 Thread P Kirk
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:41:41PM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote: Hello there... I just bought a server that has 2 4gb hd... I want to install debian to make it a server, and probably add a 20 gb hd... My question is, what partition should I put in the big hd (the 20 gb) if I expect to host

Re: Partition sizes...

2001-10-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya alexander... partition size is sort of an individual preference for partition infofaqs.. http://www.linux-1u.net/Installation/partition.html i prefer... / - small as possible ( 64Mb-128Mb ) - so that single user works even on some corrupted

channging partition sizes without data loss

2001-05-19 Thread V.Suresh
I want to shorten my 1 Gig root partition. To around 300-400 MB. Without losing data. I mean, just want to resize the partition. What software should I use? -V.Suresh. Sureshvatusersdotsourceforgedotnet Http://www16.brinkster.com/vsuresh -- ---Powered

Re: channging partition sizes without data loss

2001-05-19 Thread Marco Parrone
... I want to shorten my 1 Gig root partition. To around 300-400 MB. Without losing data. I mean, just want to resize the partition. What software should I use? ... i think you should use parted, but i've never used it, and i don't know if it work well or not. you can see apt-cache show

Re: channging partition sizes without data loss

2001-05-19 Thread Brian Stults
Marco Parrone wrote: ... I want to shorten my 1 Gig root partition. To around 300-400 MB. Without losing data. I mean, just want to resize the partition. What software should I use? ... i think you should use parted, but i've never used it, and i don't know if it work well or not.

Re: channging partition sizes without data loss

2001-05-19 Thread Tom Pfeifer
To resize your root partition with parted, there is a boot disk available at the parted site here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/gnu/parted/ You need a boot disk for this since the partition being resized can't be mounted. Tom V.Suresh wrote: I want to shorten my 1 Gig root partition. To

Re: channging partition sizes without data loss

2001-05-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:02:13PM +0600, V.Suresh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I want to shorten my 1 Gig root partition. To around 300-400 MB. Without losing data. I mean, just want to resize the partition. What software should I use? There are nondestructive repartitioning tools. All of

Re: channging partition sizes without data loss

2001-05-19 Thread John Galt
ext2resize On Sat, 19 May 2001, V.Suresh wrote: I want to shorten my 1 Gig root partition. To around 300-400 MB. Without losing data. I mean, just want to resize the partition. What software should I use? -V.Suresh. Sureshvatusersdotsourceforgedotnet

Re: channging partition sizes without data loss

2001-05-19 Thread V.Suresh
Thanks. Shall try it. Also, never knew about apt-cached show pkg. It's very good, actually. Thanks for it too. ;-) Once upon a time, Marco Parrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] found a keyboard. And typed: ... I want to shorten my 1 Gig root partition. To around 300-400 MB. Without losing data. I

Re: df reports wrong partition sizes?

2000-06-05 Thread Ron Farrer
Marc O. Sandlus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Yes, you should change it, but be careful: All your files in /usr/src actually reside on /dev/sdb5 (yes, the same as /usr). /dev/sda7 will be empty! You have wasted 595952 kB till now (maybe you will find some old files on /dev/sda7, from a time

Re: df reports wrong partition sizes?

2000-06-04 Thread Marc O. Sandlus
Ron Farrer wrote: I have two 2GB disks (SCSI-2 narrow) and this is what 'df' reports: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda8 1189183632032495712 56% / /dev/sda7 2029267 1694526229834 88% /usr/src /dev/sdb5

Re: df reports wrong partition sizes?

2000-06-04 Thread Ron Farrer
Marc O. Sandlus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It appears from this list, that /usr/src was mounted *before* /usr I guess that this causes your problems, since the mount point /usr/src didn't exist (yet) at the time /dev/sda7 was mounted. Quite possible! Here is my fstab: # /etc/fstab: static

Re: df reports wrong partition sizes?

2000-06-04 Thread Marc O. Sandlus
Ron Farrer wrote: Marc O. Sandlus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It appears from this list, that /usr/src was mounted *before* /usr I guess that this causes your problems, since the mount point /usr/src didn't exist (yet) at the time /dev/sda7 was mounted. Quite possible! Here is my

df reports wrong partition sizes?

2000-06-02 Thread Ron Farrer
I have two 2GB disks (SCSI-2 narrow) and this is what 'df' reports: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda8 1189183632032495712 56% / /dev/sda7 2029267 1694526229834 88% /usr/src /dev/sdb5 2029267

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,

Re: Partition Sizes

1997-04-25 Thread Neil A. Rubin
On 24 Apr, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: This raises questions in my mind about whether or not the kernel has to be in the root partition. My programmer instincts tell me it shouldn't have to be there. Past experience with making naive assumptions suggest that I not bet the ranch (and risk a

Re: Partition Sizes

1997-04-25 Thread Rob Browning
Sorry, that was the Multiple-Disks-Layout mini-HOWTO. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Partition Sizes

1997-04-25 Thread Rob Browning
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, I wish I have a good partition map. I believe that the Multiple-Disks-Layout HOWTO covers this very issue (even if you don't have multiple disks). -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

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

Partition Sizes

1997-04-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Rick Jones wrote: I moved all my files from hda1 to hda2 with the kernel being the last file moved. So ofcourse it is beyond the 1023 line. That would explain it. My mind is going and I'm only 32. Since I'm going to repartition this again I should give in and split it across partitions.

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

Re: Ideal partition sizes.

1997-03-17 Thread J.P.D. Kooij
There's a somewhat short mention of cluefull disk partitioning in the debian-faq, but I found much better discussion of it in the Multiple-disks-HOWTO I have two machines. I dislike extended/logical partitions. I like performance tuning. My machines have at least two drives in them.

Ideal partition sizes.

1997-03-16 Thread Paul van Berlo
partition sizes to split up the hdd for Linux? It'll be used for developing mainly and for internet connectivity. I will most likely also be running X. Any answers to this will be really appreciated. I don't want to put linux on one big partition. -Paul

Re: Ideal partition sizes.

1997-03-16 Thread Philippe Troin
to dedicate this machine to Linux now (1,2gb). What would be the ideal partition sizes to split up the hdd for Linux? It'll be used for developing mainly and for internet connectivity. I will most likely also be running X. Any answers to this will be really appreciated. I don't want to put

Re: Ideal partition sizes.

1997-03-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
). What would be the ideal partition sizes to split up the hdd for Linux? It'll be used for developing mainly and for internet connectivity. I will most likely also be running X. Any answers to this will be really appreciated. I don't want to put linux on one big partition. -Paul

Re: Ideal partition sizes.

1997-03-16 Thread Rick Macdonald
partition sizes to split up the hdd for Linux? It'll be used for developing mainly and for internet connectivity. I will most likely also be running X. Any answers to this will be really appreciated. I don't want to put linux on one big partition. I've got: 64 Megs /var 450 Megs

Re: Ideal partition sizes.

1997-03-16 Thread Lars Hallberg
partition but I want to dedicate this machine to Linux now (1,2gb). What would be the ideal partition sizes to split up the hdd for Linux? It'll be used for developing mainly and for internet connectivity. I will most likely also be running X. Any answers to this will be really appreciated. I

Re: Ideal partition sizes.

1997-03-16 Thread Pete Templin
On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Paul van Berlo wrote: to dedicate this machine to Linux now (1,2gb). What would be the ideal partition sizes to split up the hdd for Linux? It'll be used for I have two machines. I dislike extended/logical partitions. I like performance tuning. My machines have