lists1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's my partition scheme. Opinion?
IMHO it's way too complicated. :-) My laptop has two partitions, for / and /home, and I'm quite happy with that. Having /home separate is useful since if you reinstall you can do it without nuking all of your personal data; otherwise, the extra partitions just add complexity and inflexibility. > I read that deb packages take a lot of space under / , as opposed to > rpm based distros that stick packages in opt and/or usr. Maybe you're thinking of APT downloading packages into /var/cache/apt/archives before installing them? I wouldn't feel compelled to create a huge /; if you feel compelled to make it a separate partition, the sum of /bin, /etc, /sbin, and /lib here is just over 40 MB. > Should tmp be this large or larger? This box has my cd burner > (never got it working on my desktop). I'll be downloading and > burning iso images, so figure 700 MB+ dowloads, mkisofs, etc. I'd just use $HOME for this. Partitioning /tmp is a little tricky; on a production system you might want it separate so that a full /tmp doesn't also squish things like mail spools, but if /tmp fills up you have a set of other problems. > On the bind/apache/mail box with the partitioning scheme above, > should I make the directory where the apache web site files are > larger, and home much smaller? If I remember correctly, that's > usr/local/apache/htdocs/* on suse, so user would be made larger, or > is it easy enough to put web site docs in home/* directories, and > link to them from the apache config file? It is *by default* /var/www on Debian, but it should be easy enough to repoint the Apache root by changing the configuration file appropriately (or by a symlink). The package management system should only create empty directories under /usr/local, and never use /opt at all. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
