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

[Cheez-Czar <cabrubak@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

maybe 500 /tmp out of there, or make it a symbolic link to /home/tmp
( make sure /home/tmp is mode 777 (world, group, user readable writable
and executable)

I ran into a problem without either tryting to install the debian netscape
package (which requires you to d/l netscape and put it in /tmp) and X
write files to /tmp, so when it wasn't writable by world only root could
start X, I doubt you'd need the whole 500, but as you have room be safe.



On 18 Sep 1998, John Goerzen wrote:

> 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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