Hello M.Kirchhoff (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I've been using GNU/Linux now for 18 months, and Debian for about 12. > Currently, my workstation hard drive is partitioned simply: > > /dev/hda1 => / > /dev/hda2 => swap > > I just purchased a new 120GB IDE drive, however, and would like to > partition it more effectively, now that I'm more comfortable with > Debian and GNU/Linux in general. > > Here's my proposed scheme, based on Karsten's guide--out-of-date, but > useful nonetheless: > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html > > 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 Here is my partition scheme: 20 GB Windows 512 MB swap 32 MB /boot 96 MB / 1 GB /var 1 GB /tmp 2 GB /usr 3.5 GB /opt 1 GB /usr/local 2 GB /home The rest is used for data partitions, FreeBSD and occasinally for installing other Linux distributions. Some comments: On var: keep in mind that apt caches downloaded packages there. If you download packages over a net connection, make sure the place is sufficient for the cache. Depending on your needs, 1 GB may not be enough (or you will have to clean up /var/cache/apt/archives regularly) On /tmp: some programs like store files there temporarily although they will go somewhere else in the end. I think Mozilla stores downloads in /tmp until the downloads are finished. This is also the place where most CD writing GUI programs will put image files by default (although you can change that). On /usr: if you keep /usr/local on a different partition, 20 GB seems to be more than you need. Remember that this is the place where apt installs packages - if you install something manually, it will probably go to /usr/local or /opt. The packages from Woody fit on seven CDs (excluding non-free), and they take about 4 GB of space on my hard disk in packaged form. Even if you would install all of the software, you wouldn't need 20 GB. > Notes about my usage: > 1. I'm not a programmer. The most hacking I do is basic bash > scripting. > 2. I do play games, mostly on the Windows side. However, > newer games are more often being ported to Linux (Everquest, Unreal, > etc.), so I'd like room to grow for those typically large > installations. If these games are not available as Debian packages, they will probably ask you where to be installed (like Q3A or UT do). I think they default to /usr/local (with most of the files going to /usr/local/games). You can of course also install them to /opt, or somewhere else, but make sure there is enough space available. You probably do not want to install them to /usr so you can keep software installed through package management and manually installed software apart. > 3. I'm not running any servers on this box (mail, > apache, etc.). Those are all hosted elsewhere. In that case you probably do not need any additional partitions for the directories in /var (although, if you are paranoid, you can put /var/log on a different partition). best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 Registered Linux User #267976 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
