On 31/12/02 Nori Heikkinen did speaketh: > i just bought a new 80G hard drive. i should partition the whole > thing, right? i'm thinking: > > /dev/hda1 -- / (Linux (83)) -- 100M (is this appropriate?) > /dev/hda2 -- /usr (83) -- 1G (too much?) > /dev/hda3 -- swap (82) -- 128M (i have that much physical RAM, and > that should be sufficient, right?) should i make this > hda1? > /dev/hda3 -- /var -- 2 or 3 G, as per suggestion of [1] (i like apt) > /dev/hda4 -- /tmp -- 50M-ish? > /dev/hda5 -- /home -- the rest, all for me :)
All you really need is swap and /. Making all these partitions ensures that none can overflow into the other, but it's difficult to forsee exactly what your needs will be. For example, I have a 100M /tmp partition, and I thought that would be plenty. Then I started using VMWare. I'm running out of /tmp space regularly now. I really don't see a problem with just swap and /. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/nomime.html
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