prash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | 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? | Sample here of debian/sarge with many packages installed/servers/mail, etc.. : Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 1,1G 162M 855M 16% / /dev/hda2 52M 25M 25M 50% /boot /dev/hda10 13G 6,7G 5,6G 55% /home /dev/hda9 897M 8,1M 841M 1% /opt /dev/hda6 6,5G 3,3G 2,9G 54% /usr /dev/hda7 897M 272M 578M 33% /usr/local /dev/hda8 1,1G 213M 804M 21% /var /dev/hda11 4,6G 545M 3,9G 13% /backups
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