On Tuesday 25 October 2005 04:44, sean wrote: > I know this can be a tough call on how to partition a drive, but I am > looking for some input. > > My system will be used as for my own personal use, no server for > outside, though I may run a web server for private in home use, some > games, whatever I wish to play and experiment. If you think you might do re-installs, put /home on a seperate partition, otherwise I normally just have /boot and /. > > Users, mainly just me, and perhaps a family member or three. > Here is what I quickly setup. > > $ df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda3 471M 271M 176M 61% / > udev 1004M 208K 1004M 1% /dev > /dev/hda1 38M 2.6M 34M 8% /boot > /dev/hda5 4.6G 185M 4.2G 5% /var > /dev/hda6 31G 2.3G 27G 8% /usr > shm 1004M 0 1004M 0% /dev/shm > > What caught me off guard was that fact that /home is located under / and > that is where my user profiles are being set, instead of /usr/home like > it is on my freebsd system. > When I copied over my personal files, it quickly filled up the / > partition, which I have since deleted. > Now I noticed that there is a /usr/home, what exactly is that used for, > since users are not there by default? > > I would figure /boot does not really change much in size, leave as is, > maybe shrink a few mb. > /var, up and down, perhaps bring it down a gig, gig and a half. > /usr, would grow depending on software installs, much as possible. I > have not installed much currently. > If /home was on its own, I am guessing that the current / allocation > would be fine? > Anyone confirm? > Now I just have to figure what I want /home to be, or perhaps could the > default setup for users be located in /usr/home? > Would this cause problems? > Is it non standard? > > Thanks > Sean
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