With a 2.4 GB IDE and 2x2.1 GB SCSI:
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/root 152247 54883 89502 38% / /dev/sdb5 101089 16302 79568 17% /tmp /dev/sdb6 303344 193071 94612 67% /var /dev/sda5 1209572 948492 199636 83% /usr /dev/sdb7 1517920 1218352 222460 85% /usr/local /dev/hda6 249871 127331 109640 54% /usr/src /dev/sda7 585008 194212 361080 35% /home /dev/hda1 157044 119212 37832 76% /mnt/dos /dev/hda5 495960 74844 395516 16% /var/spool/news /dev/hda8 253775 128974 111699 54% /usr/doc /dev/hda2 1007992 597564 359224 62% /mnt/misc1 ...note particularly /, /usr, and /usr/local. I had to split out several /usr subdirectories because 1.2 GB wasn't sufficient, ditto /var after adding a locally-hosted leafnode usenet server. I generally prefer isolating /tmp, /var, /usr, /usr/local, and /home, and would tend to give the bulk of space to /home. If I could get away with fewer partitions, I would, but given my physical disks, this is pretty much how it crumbles. The system's got a lot of stuff on it -- I like to try things out <g>. You'll also want probably 2x physical memory as swap. Guessing you've got an IDE drive, you'll get slow performance from this. On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 02:22:37PM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > With an eye toward upgrading to Potato, and hearing > all the horor stories about slink->potato upgrade > failures I decided to do a fresh install from scratch. > So I obtained a brand new 27GB drive from > www.compgeeks.com (check them out, great bargins!). I > will have a small (say 100 mb) "/boot" partition at > the front of the disk (to avoid cyl 1024 problems with > lilo), and a 128mb swap partition. Other than that > any good ideas on how to partition the disk? In the > past I have just made the rest of the drive one hugh > partition for "\" to avoid figuring out how much to > allocate for everything. However with 27GB of space I > guess I can make a few errors without much horror. > > I intend for this machine to be a workstation (machine > is a PIII-500 with 128mb dram), and will be developing > software/packages with an eye toward becoming a debian > developer (whenever new ones are being accepted > again). BTW I still have slink on the other disk > (13gb "/" partition). > > ===== > Amateur Radio, when all else fails! > > http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze > > Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or ..... > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Scope out Scoop: http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/ Nothin' rusty about Kuro5hin: http://www.kuro5hin.org/
