Wally Lepore <wallylep...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 8:38 AM, lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: >> Wally Lepore <wallylep...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> Thank you for putting up your questions in such a well made way! > > > I appreciate that. Takes me forever to reply to all posts because I > need to make sure my questions are 'somewhat' clear. :-)
It's just nice to see a well made question for a change. That makes it so much easier and more fun to answer than the many "guessing requests" that can be found on this mailing list :) >>> Is this an acceptable partition set-up? Based on a disk capacity of 80 >>> gigs, are the allotted partition sizes acceptable? Any suggestions >>> please ? >> >> It depends on what you want to use the computer for. If you (mainly) >> use it to learn programming in C/C++/Object C, you're not like to need a >> lot of space on /var and probably no /opt partition, for example. > > Ok I'm reading this again and again. Awesome info here. Thank you. I > have no idea what /var and /opt actually stand for or what they are > used for but I continue to study? You may want to take a look at the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard"[1]. This standard defines what files go where --- with Linux, you don't have the total mess you get with windoze so you just know where to find what. /opt is for optional files that belong to some application (and don't exactly fit in otherwise) while /var is for variable data, like log files, spool files, caches, databases. I don't know why they have files for the web server under /var --- the FHS probably has some reasoning about that somewhere ... [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard >> To give you some numbers: >> >> swap 10GB [1] >> / 2GB including /boot >> /usr 12GB >> /var 2GB >> /tmp 2GB >> /home the rest of it > > Wow! Excuse my enthusiasm but you really explain this well! I > appreciate the amount of time you spent explaining this. Swap 10 gigs > ?? I'm reading on..... You're welcome :) That kind of swap just makes sense to me. It isn't so much that it would actually hurt you; it doesn't leave you stranded like only 2GB would, and it gives you time to do something in case you're about to run out of memory. >> swap 10GB [1] >> / 3GB including /boot >> /usr 15GB >> /var 4GB >> /tmp 4GB >> /home the rest of it >> >> >> [1]: There's a recommendation to have swap partitions at the very >> beginning of the disk because it's supposed to be faster. I'd make > > I need to place /boot at the beginning of the disk because I am using > two hard drives in a dual-boot. For booting windows and Debian. /boot > will be at the beginning of the 2nd drive (sdb). Hmm I don't know what speaks against having a swap partition first and then /boot, or against going without a separate /boot partition. IIRC, the reason to put /boot onto a separate partition was that some BIOS' were not able to access/address a partition if it was larger than some limit or further than some limit away from the beginning of the disk. Another reason can be that a partition on a RAID might be inaccessible during boot, so using a partition for /boot that isn't on RAID can be a (very ugly) workaround. Are there any particular reasons for a /boot partition being needed at the beginning of a disk for instances in which several OSs are installed (on several disks)? > This drive will be > 100% devoted to debian. I will then change the boot order in BIOS to > have sdb drive boot. This will display a menu asking which OS to boot > (windows or debian). See the end of page 2 on this link please: > > http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/07/23/dual-boot-ubuntu-12-04-and-windows-7-on-a-computer-with-2-hard-drives/ I've never tried that ... If it doesn't work, I guess you could (inconveniently) always keep changing in the BIOS from which disk to boot. >>> System specs: >>> >>> iWill DVD266R motherboard >>> 'Dual' Pentium III cpu's (1 GHz each) Total: 2 GHz >>> 1 gig DDR memory >>> CD-R/RW >>> DVD - R/RW >> >> That may be somewhat slow for programming when you compile stuff. >> You're really tight on RAM, so you'll probably want a slim X11 session. >> In any case, install a minimal system and add what you need later. As >> for your X11 session for programming, you might be happy with emacs (and >> gnus for your email, so the first thing is to compile emacs because the >> one in Debian is too old) as an editor, i3 as a window manager and rxvt >> as a terminal, and maybe tmux. > > > Ok but words like i3, rxvt, X11 are very foreign to me at this point. > I won't really get up to speed until I'm finished installing and can > start learning how to compile packages. Oh I didn't compile the Debian packages but downloaded the most recent version and compiled it. If I had compiled from the Debian source packages, the outcome won't be much different from the binary packages and too old as well. The package management doesn't know about what I have installed --- that's why it goes into /usr/local. >> Having that said, you might get away with about 5GB for /usr. I won't >> do that, though, because it just sucks when you later find you made it >> too small --- and it doesn't really matter if /home is 10GB more or >> less. If you need more space, better get another disk and use that for >> /home --- preferably at least two so you can use RAID. > > > Currently I have RAID turned off on my motherboard but I will consider > your suggestions. Definitely great advice! You'd either use software RAID for it or get a hardware RAID card. Don't use the RAID feature that's built into your board. >> Do not install/use the console-kit-daemon. It creates and keeps about a >> hundred threads and slows things down noticeably. > > Very interesting. I will consider that when I reach that point. You might have to just disable it so it doesn't start because of dependencies ... :) -- Debian testing iad96 brokenarch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87a9vs7rh4....@yun.yagibdah.de
