-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, tf wrote:
> I'm about to install on or move to a new hd, and I'd like to divide it > up. I've read faqs and howtos, but I can't help thinking that if I > partition it by "feel", I'd just end up wasting alot of space. > > Ok, the drive's in another machine right now. reading it's case, it has > 6448.6 mb. > > This is my first try at more than swap and /. tiny /boot, giant > /home, right? Anyone feel like helping? i have a HD about that same size. My setup is as follows: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 76M 20M 52M 28% / /dev/hda5 729M 243M 448M 35% /home /dev/hda6 486M 110M 351M 24% /var /dev/hda8 2.1G 1.6G 409M 80% /usr i also have about 485.30M free for future use. /tmp is a symlink to /var/tmp (if /tmp is a partition and a user can give boot commands (i.e. to lilo), it opens a security hole) If i would repartition again, i'd probably make / only 50M, and maybe take 100M or so from /home. Probably split /usr/local off of /usr, but that's because i do a moderate amount of development (665M worth at the moment). No /boot, that fits comfortably in / (and i usually have 2-3 old kernels installed). / should really only contain /bin, /sbin, /dev, /etc, /lib, /root, and /boot. None of those should be very big, since Debian follows the FHS guidelines that only essential things go in any of those. i'd keep a good sized /var, especially if you symlink /tmp -> /var/tmp. People will tell you it's not needed, but a week or so ago the thing got half filled by pump debugging information, logging a good .5K every 30 seconds. So i patched pump to shut it up, rather than deactivate all debug logging. - -- finger for PGP public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN/AeJr7M/9WKZLW5AQED/AQAnSBsNO882kQygL2Es9izW5csKgIdLEVR meXo1jWCx01tPHzdGAMOMt7md9irLc1UOEX1EZD/6sFsQ0b3X1LetJcTNyYv+Q5M vwjKzWIxKQ8S4GbjX1J6QewkhAUWatOod8BwX0EUDG10nQIx102q9SFhiggS/OaK XzuY5WFmYbk= =7kcQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
