> When I installed RH5.0 a I choose arbitrary partitions. Now that
> I am more familier with linux, I want different sized
> partitions.
>
> Q1: Do I need to back everything up, repartion, then reninstall??
> (this would not be so bad, but would take a few hours)
> otherwise, will i need something like magic partition(i think
> this is the name of a partition program that will repartition stuff)
>
[PT] Yeah, you will most likely have to backup and reinstall.
No so bad if all of your files are in /home. The installation
is really quick for me. I would just be more worried about
backing up the files that I changed. I think that the partition
utilities like fips are meant for DOS FAT-16 filesystems.
> Q2:(not such an important question): I am running linux on my
> laptop and am the only user. I have 1.2 gig available for
> linux. What do you think of this for a partition:
>
> / : 100M
> /usr : 700M
> /usr/src :100M
> /home : 300M
>
[PT] I currently use 50M for /, 30M for /var, 500M /usr,
400M /home and about 60M for swap. I would recommend
a separate /var partition since all logging is done there. So
if it fills up, it won't bring your system down. The only
thing that I would do differently so far is to take some
space away from /home and put it in /usr.
> do I need a /usr/local partition? i have one now and it is using
> around 1M. I guess I could make a really small /usr/local
> partition, or is none better?
>
[PT] I don't really make a separate /usr/local partition
anymore. This was more of an issue with commercial
Unices like SunOS 4.X and Solaris 2.X since I wanted
to keep the GNU software separate from the rest of the
OS (maybe for NFS or for neatness ;-).
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