Feedback Requested

[Rahul Sundaram]

Richard Crawford wrote:

>After the fiasco with my music server, I've decided I may as well rebuild it.  
>The drive is 160 GB, and this is the partitioning scheme that I'm pondering 
>for it:
>
>/		20 GB
>/home		10 GB
>/var		5 GB
>/tmp		5 GB
>/opt		10 GB
>/shared		110 GB
>
>
>The /shared directory would contain music, pictures, and documents that our 
>family creates to share with each other.  I worry that 5 GB may not be enough 
>for /var and /tmp, and I wonder if I really need a separate partition 
>for /opt.
>
>Any feedback and suggestions -- and I don't mean to start any arguments over 
>the best partioning scheme -- would be greatly appreciated.
>  
>
I havent followed the earlier discussions on this but using LVM is much 
better

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/whywouldiwantit.html

regards
Rahul