On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 12:03:39AM -0500, Brad wrote: > > 1. If i understand things correctly, /, /boot, /lib, /bin, /sbin, /dev, > > parts of /etc, and maybe /root should be on one partition below the > > 1024th cyl for hysterical reasons, which do apply in my case. Do i > > understand correctly? > > Yes, pretty much. My hard drive/BIOS has some bizarre LBA system > where my 8.4GB drive has only got 1024 cylinders, so it's not a > problem - maybe the same applies to most modern BIOSes?
Since it's very little trouble to keep it under, i'm going to do it to be sure things will work. > > 3. How about sizes for other partitions? /home i'm thinking 750M > > (personal workstation, 6 users that are just different mailing > > addresses for me), 1G for /var (with /tmp -> /var/tmp, is that a > > bad idea?), 2.1G for /usr. > > Apart from /var being a tad large (are you running a news server?) > that sounds about right. i'll have /tmp linked into /var/tmp, so i was thinking it should be a little large... But maybe i will cut it down to 700M. There seems to be an art to sizing partitions, which is why i cast out for opinions. > If you're going to install something like > StarOffice, make sure you do it in /usr, though, not $HOME/SO5.1/ or > whatever it suggests. Done that, the /net option is my friend. I don't see any reason to stick it in /home when i have root access to /usr to install it anyway. Thanks for the commants!
