Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-10 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Karsten M. Self said on Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 05:27:00PM +0100: > > encountered is discover, so it's a pretty small number). > > This is a bug and should be reported as such. It was reported, but not by me. > Does Bug #178944 match your observations? That would be the one. M pgp0.pgp Des

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:08:22PM +0100, Ben Kal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 4 Jun 2003 lists1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <...> > > Did I make opt too small? > > Only you may know. What would you want to put into it? It is true that > by default there is no /opt in a Debian installation, bu

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 01:36:41PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > lists1 said on Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:34:13PM -0400: > > The box is 1.3 Ghz, 128 MB ram, single 13.9 GB hard disk. Planned use, is > > light apache, light bind, light mail server (debian mailing list will be the

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD Thanks

2003-06-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 12:25:56AM +0200, Frank Gevaerts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 05:51:12PM -0400, lists1 wrote: > > Thanks to all. I'm going to print out the Partitioning mini-faq, as it > > answers some other questions, and I'll use the examples for suid, remount,

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-07 Thread Ben Kal
On 5 Jun 2003 "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Ben Kal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [snip] >> AFAIK the guide to the size of swap is the amount of RAM: make it equal to >> or twice that amount. By that standard you can cut down swap at least to >> half what you now plan to make it.

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD, final chapter

2003-06-06 Thread lists1
One last (I hope) update for now, and a little clarification for those not following all the posts, and those that may venture here later: ... >> I'm looking at this: > > > > / 2GB > > /boot 140MB > > /opt 500 > > /tmp 1GB > > /usr 2

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Ben Kal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > AFAIK the guide to the size of swap is the amount of RAM: make it equal to > or twice that amount. By that standard you can cut down swap at least to > half what you now plan to make it. I don't know if Linux would like to > fill swap space with the is

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-06 Thread Ben Kal
On 4 Jun 2003 lists1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My friend has just emailed back saying that Debian doesn't use opt at all, > that's a quirk of suse, so I'm changing the setup to add more to var, where > he says the deb files go (var/cache/apt/archives), so I'm looking at this: > > /

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-05 Thread Jay Harrison
Based on other opinions, it would seem there is a bias against multiple partions. My recommendation would be: / 500MB /boot 64MB - Note should be primary partiton not extended SWAP 256MB - Twice memory is a good place to start. You can always add another if you need to

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD Thanks

2003-06-05 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 05:51:12PM -0400, lists1 wrote: > Thanks to all. I'm going to print out the Partitioning mini-faq, as it > answers some other questions, and I'll use the examples for suid, remount, > and others in fstab and elsewhere. I did look at it last night, among a lot > of other

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD Thanks

2003-06-05 Thread lists1
Thanks to all. I'm going to print out the Partitioning mini-faq, as it answers some other questions, and I'll use the examples for suid, remount, and others in fstab and elsewhere. I did look at it last night, among a lot of other docs/posts, but the date and small partition sizes threw me a b

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-05 Thread David Z Maze
lists1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's my partition scheme. Opinion? IMHO it's way too complicated. :-) My laptop has two partitions, for / and /home, and I'm quite happy with that. Having /home separate is useful since if you reinstall you can do it without nuking all of your personal d

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-05 Thread Mark Roach
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 16:46, lists1 wrote: [...] > My friend has just emailed back saying that Debian doesn't use opt at all, > that's a quirk of suse, so I'm changing the setup to add more to var, where > he says the deb files go (var/cache/apt/archives), so I'm looking at this: > > /

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-05 Thread lists1
On some suse installs, I couldn't get the install to work because it said that ReiserFS, which I use for all partitions, needed more space. It accepted smaller sizes for ext2 and ext3, but I prefer ReiserFS. Don't remember how much it required, but my other boxes are set all above 100 MB, and

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-05 Thread Mark Ferlatte
lists1 said on Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:34:13PM -0400: > The box is 1.3 Ghz, 128 MB ram, single 13.9 GB hard disk. Planned use, is > light apache, light bind, light mail server (debian mailing list will be the > heaviest use). With X and some gui apps (see below). > > / 2000MB > /bo

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:34:13PM -0400, lists1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Here's my partition scheme. Opinion? > The box is 1.3 Ghz, 128 MB ram, single 13.9 GB hard disk. Planned use, is > light apache, light bind, light mail server (debian mailing list will be the > heaviest use). With X a

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-05 Thread Jose
Hi, lists1 wrote: Here's my partition scheme. Opinion? The box is 1.3 Ghz, 128 MB ram, single 13.9 GB hard disk. Planned use, is light apache, light bind, light mail server (debian mailing list will be the heaviest use). With X and some gui apps (see below). / 2000MB /boot 140

Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-05 Thread lists1
Here's my partition scheme. Opinion? The box is 1.3 Ghz, 128 MB ram, single 13.9 GB hard disk. Planned use, is light apache, light bind, light mail server (debian mailing list will be the heaviest use). With X and some gui apps (see below). / 2000MB /boot 140 MB /opt 200

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-04 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- lists1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: 500 MB > > Should swap be larger with 128 MB Ram, dealing with 700 MB+ iso images (my > burner is on this box). Did I make opt too small? > I don't that's an issue. I routinely burn 700 MB ISO images on a Pentium Pro 200 with only 128 MB RAM and