On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 09:44 +0000, 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.
The most simple and effective partition setup for a basic install is just boot-root-swap! ie, a /boot partition, a / and some swapspace. Everything else can hang off there. If however, you're like me and you have lots of user downloaded stuff, I would consider either an extra /home partition, or an ftp shared directory where all your vids / music / games / bug stuff can go. > 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 personally I wouldn't bother with usr and var, but many people will disagree. > 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. *lol* You've since deleted the / partition? How is that working for you?!! > Now I noticed that there is a /usr/home, what exactly is that used for, > since users are not there by default? you probably made it by mistake when copying stuff from your freebsd machine. > I would figure /boot does not really change much in size, leave as is, > maybe shrink a few mb. I couldn't see a /boot in your `df -h` list, probably because it wasn't mounted. I've never needed a /boot larger than 100Mb, and I'm constantly recompiling kernels, with a few old versions lying around in /boot just in case. > /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. remember /usr/portage. This can potentially hog a lot of space. I have a final partition (ok I lied about only having boot-root-swap :) mounted as /home/ftp/pub/gentoo, which is mounted again as /usr/portage. This lets me share my distfiles with others, as well as keeping the size of /usr down. > If /home was on its own, I am guessing that the current / allocation > would be fine? > Anyone confirm? If you want to keep / small, then don't forget about /opt. Quite a few (but getting fewer and fewer) large apps install themselves there. ATM in /opt I have enemy-territory, quake 3, blackdown jdk and jre, vmware, and acrobat 7, as well as some others, totalling 1.1Gb!! > 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? possibly > Is it non standard? What standard? The everybody-else-does-it standard, or the LFS standard??!! -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
