hello, i have a spanking new machine with a 40 gb hard disk - all for my favorite distro! of course too much space is a bad thing too (especially when you don't know how to allocate it). i have decided on this scheme to begin with: / : 7.0 gb swap : 1.5 gb (i have 512mb ram) /usr : 4.0 gb /usr/local : 18.0 gb (i WILL install anything/everything out there) /home : 4.0 gb /home/prash : 4.0 gb (i am ego(t)istic that way) /boot : 0.5 gb (is this enough?) /var : 1.0 gb (is this enough? this is NOT a mail/news server) ---------------------------- total : 40.0 gb ----------------------------
now, the questions (!): 1. why should i (and how can i) define a /tmp partition when i don't know what temporary space each app might take? a dvd burner might decide to take 4 gb, a regular app just 10 kb. if i go higher it's a waste 95% of the time, lower and i risk some apps not working well. (this is why i don't have a /tmp defined above: i decided to let the app take how much ever it wanted out of / (root)) 2. suppose i reduce the partition sizes of some of the folders above and keep aside, let's say, 5gb of "unpartitioned/empty/unused" space. can i later merge this space with any other partition based on need? (for example if /usr/local becomes larger than 18 gb - and friends who are aware of my downloading skills know that that can happen - can i merge it with this free 5 gb to make it 23 gb?) 3. any other suggestions/rearrangement of my partition scheme? thanks! -prash. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
