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Re: Splitting Disk Space into partitions...



On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Yannai A. Gonczarowski wrote:

First of all I do'nt see any reason to perform a "well behaved"
partitioning. 400 MB is not that much to chack at once, and if all
partitions lie on sigle disk, you do not gain "fault tolerance" you might
achieve using separate disks. So, it may be useful to make one big "/"
partition.
But, if you ask for optimal slicing,

"/" 		30 Mb  | /etc includes a lot of config files

"/var"    	20 Mb  | in case you will do print ||/&& mail spooling,
		       | add disk space there, and cut from "/ur/local"

"/usr"    	150 Mb | and this include X + standard Xapps

"/usr/local"	200 Mb | here KDE and WMaker and all other stuff
		       | will go

IMHO this will do.
BTW, I think it will be useful to put "/var" "/usr" and "/usr/local"
on extended partiotions, so you"ll be able to use diskedit on those in
case everything else fails


:Hi,
:I need to install linux on a computer with 500MB of free disk space.
:The computer has 32 MBs of RAM. so 96 go to swap...
:How should the remaining 400 be split up? (how much for /? Do I need a
:seperate partition for /var?). No need for /home.
:I want to use the minimum necessary for / and /var, and make a /usr out of the
:rest.
:The system to be installed is RedHat 5.
:
:
:Regards,
:Yannai.
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