on Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 05:54:17PM +0100, Andreas Janssen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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 Here's my proposed scheme, based on Karsten's guide--out-of-date, but 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
Updated at http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/NixPartitioning > > 20GB => WinXP (unless by some stroke of fortuity Half-Life2 is ported > > to Linux) 150MB => / > > 100MB => /boot Slight overkill. Kernels run about 1 MiB. initrd images ~3-5 MiB. I'm at 32 MiB and 40% used. Recommended 32-64 MiB will hold you for years. > > 1GB => /tmp Overkill. Though perhaps less so than it might have been. I'm at 256 MiB and 22% used, with a fair bit of excess in /tmp. > > 1GB => swap I recommend multiple swap partitions, sized to your current RAM allocation, maxing at your max RAM. If you have 512 MiB on the box, and a 2 GiB max ram, give yourself four 512 MiB swap partitions, totalling 2 GiB. Mount two. When you add more RAM, mount another, then the last. This gives you swap == 2-1 x RAM. And if you need to reclaim one at some point for temporary storage, you can. > > 1GB => /var That's tight. I'd do 1.5 - 2 GiB. Damned apt cache keeps sucking up space. As does /var/lib. Likewise if you plan on large databases, websites, etc. > > 20GB => /usr *Way* too big. 3-6 GiB will hold you for years. > > 5GB => /usr/local Probably too big. There's not a hell of a lot of stuff you put in /usr/local on a Debian system. > > ~70GB => /home Looks like you can up that to about 95 GB You've also left off a recovery partition. I keep a 256 MiB - 512 MiB partition on which a relatively minimal installation is kept. If I futz my primary partition, or need to shuffle things around, I can mount this. Package list at: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Downlaod/system2-packages.gz > 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 Pretty sane. Except for that first partition ;-) > 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) And other stuff: # cd /var; du -sx * | sort -nr | cat -n 1 668353 cache 2 187340 lib 3 32661 account 4 31227 log 5 5641 www 6 5045 backups 7 1749 spool 8 187 run 9 34 games 10 17 mail 11 2 lock 12 1 tmp 13 1 opt 14 1 local 15 1 autofs > 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). obDisclosure: I don't burn ISOs much. > On /usr: if you keep /usr/local on a different partition, 20 GB seems > to be more than you need. Agreed. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act: Feinstein's answer to Enron envy. http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa/hollings.s2048.032102.html
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