Re: [aclug-L] BRAND SPANKIN' NEW HDD!!!!!!!!!

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow, lots of space :-)

I'd suggest something like:

200             /
100             swap
2000            /usr
500             /var

This comes to 3000 MB.  You'll also want a /home -- maybe even use it
for all of the remainder:

4000            /home

When I got my 4.5 gig HD, they didn't even have IDE drives in that
size... <frown>

This method is commonly used by Linux/Unix sysadmins since it seems to 
work very well.  It has some other advantages, too: /usr can typically 
be mounted read-only (which may be good for the security conscious)
except when installing new software -- this also means that a power
failure will not harm anything on /usr.  It's a good idea to keep
clutter out of / -- this keeps the filesystem with the system's vital
data fast, trim, and clean.  The / partition will have /etc, /bin,
/sbin, /boot, and the like in it.

/usr accumulates a lot of stuff, so it's good to make some room
there.

/var is for "variable" data -- caches, mail spools, etc.

/home is the home directory for each user.

My own setup is similar to that:

Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sda1             109224   23596    79988     23%   /

Note that root typically has little on it.

/dev/sda5            1486508 1042698   366994     74%   /usr

All of your programs go into /usr or /usr/local, so typically this one 
will be large.

/dev/sda8             420135  199240   199197     50%   /var

My /var is larger than most because all sorts of mailing list and web
data goes in there.

/dev/sda7            2178728  769046  1297061     37%   /home

This is where all your own personal files, downloads, documents,
pictures, etc. go.

The remaining two are not standard on my system:

/dev/hda2            3266479 2129584   967955     69%   /ftp

This is my Debian and if-archive mirror, and:

/dev/hda1             528000  389056   138944     74%   /hda1-vfat

that's my DOS drive

internal.router:/      99120   49192    44809     52%   
/remotebackups/internal.router

And that's an NFS mount from my other box so that it gets included in
backups.



Jesse Kaufman <kaufmjes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> so, what do you reccomend?  my drive is 6.8 gigs
> 
> 
> John Goerzen wrote:
> > 
> > I disagree with this, myself.  I reccommend one large partiion only if
> > your disk is less than somewhere between 500 meg and 1 gig.
> >
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