On 29 Aug 2001 13:49:19 -0600, John Purser wrote: > I'm installing Debian Woody as the only OS on an IBM PC with a 20 gig hard > drive, 192 megs of ram, and two Ethernet cards. This machine will be my > network gateway and provide DNS, DHCP, Web, and database service for my > small network. Not a lot of users and not a lot of data. I'm a programmer > who just wants a test network to play with. The partition scheme I'm > considering is: > / 243 Megs > /boot 60 Megs > /home 1 Gig > /usr 16 Gigs > /var 1 Gig > /tmp 1 Gig > /swap 500 Megs > > Given the resources and purpose of this machine can anyone see anything > wrong with this? I haven't found a lot of hard do's and don'ts when it > comes to partitioning so I copied this from a machine that has Red Hat > installed and then added the /tmp partition and bumped the /var to handle > large logs. Then I cut the /home down drastically and dumped the rest into > /usr. > > Suggestions? Comments? Raucous laughter at my expense?
Looks ok to me. I don't know why you'll ever need 16 gigs of applications and source under /usr but if you think thats where you're going to need space in the future . . . I'd just make a 2 gig /usr which has been more than sufficient for me in the past and present. Then make 14 gigs for whatever I usually just call it mp3 or media for storage. --mike
