On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Jason Grovert wrote:
> What is the best way to partition a drive as far as sizing goes. Let's say
> I have a 8 gig hard drive. How would everyone do it and for what reasons?
Depends on what you are doing with it. I usually do
10 for /boot
100-150 for /
100-200 for /var
250 for /opt
then the rest divided between /var/spool/mail, /usr and /export/home (i do
the solaris style of using /export/home, with autofs mounting under /home
as needed... force of habit, i work mostly with sun)
figure out what your functions are going to be. if you'll be the only user
of the system, make /var/spool/mail only as big as you want to allow for
your inbox (or just make /var that much bigger, and leave out
/var/spool/mail)
/usr is where the vast majority of your software will go. occasionally
things will default to /opt, but i don't see it often in linux. i like
/usr to be at least 1500M, usually 2-3 gig.
/home should be determined by # of users multiplied by the amount of space
you'll allow for each. On my linux system, I only have 10 users, but i
have some REALLY large disk quotas (one user has 5 gig!), so /home is on a
13 gig drive.
for an 8 gig drive, single user system, i'd probably go:
/boot 10M
/ 240M
/opt 500M
/var 250M
/usr 3.5G
/home 3.5G
That leaves enough room in /, and /var with tons of room in /usr and
/home, and a good amount of space in /opt, just in case any packages want
to go there (so you don't fill up /)
This is just my opinion, not the 'right' way to do it.
Brian
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