On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 11:02:18PM +0300, tf wrote > Hey guys, > > 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? > -- >
If you're the only user, then /dev/hda1 /boot 5M /dev/hda2 swap 128M /dev/hda4 / lots should be pretty safe; I think you will hit ext2's size limit on a drive this size but there's no harm in leaving a few gig unused, for when you figure out how you *really* want it partitioned - it gives you somewhere to move things to while you re-size other partitions. If the machine is multi-user, it would be a *very* good idea to have a separate partition for /home - how big depends on how much you want to give over to users. If you want to run a news server, squid, or keep lots of logs you should put /var (or at least, the busy parts) onto a suitably-sized separate partition to avoid exhausting space on /. Putting /tmp on a separate partition may also be a good idea for the same reason, if you have apps that place heavy demands on /tmp (or foolish/malicious users). 1G should be more than enough for /usr on most workstations, but if you're the kind who install *everything* to find out what's there, 2-3G may be necessary. Someone else posted that using a separate partition for /tmp is a security hole if you have users who can pass boot parameters to LILO - I wouldn't worry about it too much, as if you are in that position on a workstation booting off a local disk then you have no meaningful security with respect to those users anyway. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
