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

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One often will symlink /tmp -> /var/tmp since this is really where
/tmp would fit.  Sometimes this isn't even necessary -- but you're
right, on a disk with a very large capacity, maybe make a couple
hundred MB for a separate /tmp FS.

John

Cheez-Czar <cabrubak@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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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