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Re: Installing
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Nir wrote:
>
> > I'd like to install Rh5.2 on a brand new 6.4Gb.
> > Any recommendations for partitioning it ?
>
> imho do yourself a favor and put as many partitions on it as practically
> possible. Lots of people install in the grand Redmond way, one, big, and
> forever, only to work very hard later, to move and partition data when the
> disk fills.
>
> Minimum requirements are one swap partition, and one root partition. The
> root partition should start and end under the 1G limit for least problems.
> Above 1G do what you please. Having separate partitions for / /usr /home
> /home/ftp/pub/incoming /var/spool/mqueue and a few other things is very
> helpful later imho.
all that is true if you are planning a server. /usr can be part of the
root but /usr/local is a very good candidate for a seperate partition,
same for all of /var and /home, /home/ftp if you are opening it for public
access. the redmond approach is just fine for a workstation though.
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