[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> As I wait for my rh6.1 cd to arrive in the mail I have a few questions
> about the installation. I have decided to use my second IDE drive
> which is 1.6 GB in space for redhat, but I am unsure on how I should
> partition it up. Do I just stick everything into one partition and
> have a separate one for swap space? I read somewhere that I should
> have separate partitions for /etc, /var, /usr, /tmp, /home for
> security reasons. How much disk space would I assign to each
> directory? Bear in mind I wouldn't have anymore than 5 users on my
> machine. Also, how do I tell the setup that I have separate partitions
> for /etc, /var, etc... ? I thought the setup program wacks it all into
> the one partition, no questions asked.
Nelson, You're going to get many suggestions that vary from "first
make 20 partitions, with (a) this big and (b) that big and ... Which,
for a new user, is silly. Unless you have detailed knowledge of your
own uses of your system, and how much space you need for the different
primary directories, don't bother with this.
Security is more a matter of how you handle your system overall, rather
than how many partitions you may happen to have.
The general pattern I suggest to new users is this: create three
partitions. Depending on the amount of space you have available,
the following should put you in the ballpark:
Partition Size
/ <everything left, minimum of 600 Mb>
swap space <a good rough cut is that if you have < 64Mb RAM
make swap = 64Mb. If you have 64 Mb or more RAM,
I generally make swap = RAM. If, for some project,
you need more swap space on a temp basis you can
create a swap file.
/home <roughly 200 - 250 Mb suggested. Less will work.>
I also generally suggest that you create your /home partition at the
end of free disk space, your / partition at the beginning, and your
swap in the middle. The "why" here goes to the reason for this
pattern of partitioning; if you need to reinstall (a not infrequent
activity for newbies! 8^D ) you can archive anything you need to save,
such as configuration files, downloads, etc., on the /home partition.
Then, when you reinstall, just tell the installer where to mount the
partition (/home) but tell it _NOT_ to format the partition. Then
when you reboot all your archived files will still be there.
If your disk has more than 1024 cylinders, and the / partition will
extend beyond cylinder 1023, you will need to use a slightly different
setup:
Partition Size
/boot 10-16Mb
/ <as large as possible>
swap space <as before>
/home <as before>
This will keep your kernel/boot image below the 1023 cylinder, and
working properly.
best
rickf
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