Partition help
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
Mon Jan 31 04:40:34 UTC 2005
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 22:25, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> OK, let's examine the logic behind the partition scheme Sobell lays out:
>
> /boot 100 megabytes
> / 500 megabytes
> (swap) two times the amount of ram
> /home As large as necessary, depends upon # of users
> /tmp Minimum 100 megabytes
> /usr Minimum 1.7 - 5.5 GB depending what I install
> /var Minimum 500 Megabytes
>
> I wouldn't usually contradict Mark Sobell, but since you are just setting up
> a small system for educational purposes, I would do this:
>
> /boot (200MB)
> swap (512MB)
> / (the whole rest of the drive)
>
> And here's why: Yes, there is some small danger of logfiles or runaway
> processes filling up your root partition, but in the 10 years I've been
> running Linux I've only seen that on servers, never on a laptop. If you do
> this then you can use all of the remaining part of your hard drive. You'll
> never run into the situation where /home has tons of free space but you
> guessed wrong and /usr is full and you can't install new software. In my
> opinion (which is only worth what you've paid for it), the risks are far
> outweighed by the benefit of not having to take guesses at what your disk
> usage will be.
For personal laptops and desktop systems I concur! If you are setting
up a server that will have multiple users breaking up things into
physical file systems has merit, but for personal single user use the
setup you outline above is what I have been using for many years with no
problems.
I have in the distant past run into the problem of having to expand a
critical file system because the services the machine provide out grew
the original partition plan. It is not fun to do. Believe me.
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Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
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