On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:23:42 +0000, M.Kirchhoff 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 Here's my proposed scheme, based on Karsten's guide--out-of-date, but useful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
>
> 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.
> 3. I'm not running any servers on this box (mail, apache, etc.). Those are all
> hosted elsewhere.
>
Consider using LVM, for all your Linux filesystems except the root
filesystem. Then you can adjust the size if you guess wrongly.
I am running 2x40GB and 4x80GB drives. The 80GBs are split into 4G
physical partitions, which gives me a lot of flexibility within LVM for
moving things around - you probably don't need to mess with quite so many
partitions, but when you can glue physical pieces together in LVM, small
physical partitions give you a bit more flexibility in terms of
granularity.
--
....................paul
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enough hammer.
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