David: replying to you and list in event you've given up on us...
on Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:58:38PM -0800, David W. Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have been a telecommunications technician for many years & worked on
> the perifery of the data world over many years. I have got about 8
> books on Linux and have loosely studied this OS for about 3 years.
> But I am certainly a newbie. So far I have not found a good
> general reference about partition sizes. The following table shows what
> hardware I have, disks in use, and planned layout for HD-2 (hdb*).
> I am concerned about /var in particular ... but will welcome any ideas.
> The purpose of the Linux box is to learn Linux. I want to be able to
> practice my very rusty programing skills, in the future set up a very
> small LAN, and be able to do all the admin. stuff from this main box.
> Will the "programming package" give me what I need or should I go
> into "dselect" & pick tasks. ( I guess that would help my learning
> curve.) Later on, I want to get into HA ( high availablity ) stuff
> with a 2nd box being a mirrow of this one.
>
> RE-partitioning of 2nd HARD DISK ( IDE ) = 4.102 GB drive on DELL P-200
> MMX ( 92 MB RAM )
4GB is a bit on the thin side for Debian, though it's definitely doable.
My current laptop runs in 4 GiB.
> #############################################################################
> All FILEs are of the ext2fs type.
> This will be a multi-boot machine, but the first HD is for M$
> Windows only at this date.
> The 2nd HD is for multiple Linux distros, Debian = first 2+ GB and
> any other L OS will be on whats left.
> (( NOTE: First HARD DR. = MicroCrap 98 // 2.1 MB. // FAT 32 ))
> #############################################################################
> Using PARTITION MAGIC program to do 2ND ATTEMPT partitioning.
> SUN 2003-01-26 re-design choices, which have been put on the HD &
> checked for bad blocks.
> Hope to install Debian V 2.1 ( Slink & a half ) from CD-rom
> that I have on hand.
> PARTITION TYPES P = primary E = extended L = logical
> # TYPE MB FILE PURPOSE or FILE NAME
> 1 P 643 83 D. kernel, Work Station, develope, Networking.
I'm not sure what you're doing here. A basic root partition need only
be 64-96 MiB.
> 2 P 128 82 SWAP
> 3 E for logical partitions - - see below starting w/ # 5.
> 4 P 1890 83 TurboLinux or SuSE or whatever I play w/ next.
With only 4GB, and since you're already starting with Debian, don't do
that. You've already chosen your last GNU/Linux distro ;-)
> 5 L 643 83 debian/usr
> 6 L 31 83 debian/tmp
> 7 L 300 83 debian/var
Almost certainly too small. Your apt package archive will want more
space.
> 8 L 100 83 debian/var/spool/mail
Not necessary unless you're running a server.
> 9 L 327 83 debian/home
> 10 L 64 83 debian/usr/local
> 1896+ total
> ###################################################################
> END
> 301887 = Linux registration. // 187256 = hardware # Dell P-200 MMX box.
> Thanking youse guys in advance for any help. peace.! David.
In general, I suggest in order the following partitions: /, swap, /tmp,
/boot, /usr, /var, /home, /usr/local
Partitioning can be a hassle, but it gives you additional control, see
my general partitioning guide:
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html
My own current configuration for a similar system (P-133/64MB/4GB):
[root@id:root]# df -h; fdisk -l /dev/hda; mount
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 80M 49M 27M 64% /
/dev/hda1 27M 8.1M 17M 32% /boot
/dev/hda5 126M 4.2M 115M 4% /tmp
/dev/hda6 2.0G 1.3G 821M 60% /usr
/dev/hda7 772M 586M 186M 76% /var
/dev/hda8 717M 598M 118M 84% /home
Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 993 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 7 28192+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 * 8 28 84672 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 29 61 133056 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 62 993 3757824 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 62 94 133024+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 95 615 2100640+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 616 811 790240+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 812 993 733792+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 on / type ext3,ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (ro,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/hda5 on /tmp type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/hda6 on /usr type reiserfs (rw,nodev)
/dev/hda7 on /var type reiserfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/hda8 on /home type reiserfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
Peace.
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A guide to GNU/Linux partitioning:
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html
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