M. Kirchhoff wrote:
> I just purchased a new 120GB IDE drive, however, and would like to
> partition it more effectively
>
> 20GB => WinXP (unless by some stroke of fortuity Half-Life2 is ported
> to Linux)
> 150MB => /
> 100MB => /boot
> 1GB => /tmp
> 1GB => swap
> 1GB => /var
> 20GB => /usr
> 5GB => /usr/local
> ~70GB => /home
Just a few comments:
(1) With a 120 gb drive there is no reason to be so conservative about
/. I would give it at least a gig, just for sanity.
(2) I like to split up /var... /var/log, /var/tmp, and /var at least.
(3) If you don't mind spending a few rainy afternoons, you might want to
investigate lvm. It allows you to create virtual resizable partitions,
so the only thing you have to decide at install time is size-of-slash
and size-of-everything-else. It also allows you to do filesystem
snapshots (which are really nifty). ( http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ )
This might be a little overkill for a home machine, but it sure is fun.
-- Brendan
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