On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 4:19 pm, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 16:24, John Anderson wrote: > > Any way to cut a long story short I have come up with the following, and > > would appreciate thoughts and guidence. > > I have long had multiple partitions too, but over time realized it's a > waste of space or time on a desktop. On a server it sure is a good > thing. I now have /boot 100 MB, / 30 GB (too big, but able to compile > mozilla and openoffice.org and enough for a long time :), and /home (for > backup/reinstall convenience) 90GB, Swap 1 GB (because it doesn't > matter)
This machine could well end up being a server, I want to learn a lot more before that happens though :-) > > /boot 20meg > > Too small if you're into testing lots of different kernel sources, > otherwise ok. Would make it 50 though just to be on the save side I will most probably leave this as part of / > > / 4gig > > ???? If you have /home, /var, /usr and /tmp on their own partitions, you > won't need more than 100 MB for /. I've checked with du -ch: > > Dir Size for me [MB] > ---------------------------------------- > /bin 5 > /dev 0 (run devfs, is a virtual fs) > /etc 14 > /lib 16 > /proc 0, virtual > /root 2.8 (config files, should be smaller since most are from X apps) > /sbin 4.6 > > No big dirs. You should also consider making /opt a link to /usr/opt if > some package should need it I now have a better understanding, and will probably go for 300meg > > /var 8gig > > ??? Are you a news server? Generally, /var on its own partition is a > hassle, you either waste space most of the time, or run out of space > when dist-upgrading the whole distro (downloaded packages go there). > I have found 500 MB enough, but even this is too much most of the time. > I currently have 131 MB in /var, but I use mailspools in $HOME I think I will end up with 1gig > > /tmp 2gig > > Again a hassle, mostly you waste space, but then there is this odd print > job or reaaaaallly big image in gimp. Again, why bother? Well I recently tried out Mondo, and it filed the / partition and killed the machine it was using /tmp, probably due to new stupid user (me) however I don't want that to ever happen again, so will most likely end up with say 2 Cd's worth or 1.5gig > > /usr 5gig > > OK > > > /swap ??? 750meg ram, and from what I have read it should equal the ram > > up to 256meg > > Difficult to say. In the beginning of kernel 2.4, the original vm wanted > RAM x 2 for swap, but most non-kernel people found out only when the > discussions around the different vm implementations and ripping out the > old vm boiled up. I was recently able to fill 256 RAM and 500 swap > easily when I ran 2 different gnome dev versions complete with memory > leaks for 2 users on 2 displays simultaniously. > Personally I have settled on the "what the heck, disk is cheap" approach > and now run 512 RAM + 1 GB swap. Sounds a reasonable approach, I will need to do a lot more reading before I make a final decision on swap. > > /home what ever is left > > I'd say as much as possible without sacrificing proper system function. > Isn't running a system about doing stuff as user? (I know, not for > everybody, but still) :-) Thanks for the input, gives me lots to consider. -- Regards John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
