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Re: Installing




First of all , hi all 
i was gone a long time. now im back.

On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Ira Abramov wrote:

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.|On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Peter L. Peres wrote:
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.|> On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Nir wrote:
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.|> > I'd like to install Rh5.2 on a brand new 6.4Gb.
.|> > Any recommendations for partitioning it ?
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.|> 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.
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.|> 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.
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.|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.

I would say 1G  for / much to much.
If you want to have /var and /tmp under it, and planning to save lots of logs,
make it 300MB, if not, 90-120MB is much too. / isn't acualy holding something, 
spacialy if you have /usr (300MB), /usr/local (600MB) and /export/home (1-2GB),

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