on Mon, Sep 16, 2002, David Sanders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am installing Debian 3.0 Woody on a new machine with a 80GB hard drive and > 512MB of RAM. It will be used as a workstation. I have read the > installation manual, but still have questions about partitioning the disk. > Minimum values are usually given, but no discussion of max or optimal sizes. > The following are given in > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-partitioning.en.html
> / 100MB
> /usr 500MB
> /home 100MB per user
> /var 300-500MB
> /tmp 20-50MB
My general recommendations:
http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/NixPartitioning
(Older article is here:
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html )
For 80 GiB, I'd give a reasonably system allocation, with the balance to
/home. I'm providing swap as 3x RAM, on the basis that:
- You'll likely add more RAM later.
- Moder kernels will stripe the swapspace, and may provide more
efficient use with multiple partitions (this is untested hearsay)
This gives, roughly:
/boot 32 MiB /* Plenty for a small handful of kernels */
/ 100 MiB /* /lib/modules tends to be the biggest
* part of this. */
/tmp 200 MiB
/var 1 GiB /* Your apt archives will be happier */
/recovery 512 MiB /* Recovery partition */
swap1 512 MiB
/usr 3 GiB /* 3 GiB should be plenty */
swap2 512 MiB
/usr/local 2 GiB /* There's not _that_ much unpackaged
* software out there anymore */
swap3 512 MiB
/home 71 GiB /* Be generous to yourself */
Variants might include carving out a few partitions for reserve or
testing. I'd rather chuck in a new drive when time comes for this. 40
GiB is about as many dollars, and gives a lot of play room.
Peace.
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