One thing I'm surprised has gone unsaid in this discussion -- keep some
extra space for testing new distributions. Even with my meager total
of 330MB (yes, I'm adding another drive RSN) I have enough space to install
a minimal system with the stuff that's really important to me, like uucp
and smai
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Timothy Phan wrote:
> :Make the following symlinks:
> :
> :/tmp -> /local/tmp (unless you might share this drive via NFS)
> :/home-> /local/home
> :/usr/local ->/local/usr
> :/var/spool ->/local/spool (again, if using NFS, you should b
Pete Templin wrote:
:
:My suggestion?
:
:20M/
:500M /usr
:100M /var
:(the rest) /local (or whatever)
:
:Make the following symlinks:
:
:/tmp -> /local/tmp (unless you might share this drive via NFS)
:/home -> /local/home
:/usr/local -> /local/usr
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Matt Kracht wrote:
> You might want something like the following:
>
> 50MB /
> 100MB /var
> 250MB /var/spool
> 250MB /tmp
> 500MB /usr
> 750MB /usr/local
> 100MB swap
My $0.02: you're not going to win any _performance_ wars by making more
partitions, particularly if
I've been aching to ask this for about a week but thought "no, its off
subject." I still havent mailed in my Partition Magic receipts.
1- I resized my dos partition and now have
[dos] [free space][linux swap][linux ext]
as my partitions.
How can I add the free space to linux ext?
Please excus
Matt Kracht wrote:
:Partitioning is kind of fun. Maybe it's just me, but I can almost
:imagine a cut scene in Batman III where Jim Carrey says, "Riddle me this,
:Batman! If I've got a two gig hard drive, how large should /usr be?"
:-) If there's one thing I can recommend it's making sure the s
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronald van Loon) writes:
> |"You might want something like the following:
> |"
> |" 50MB /
>
> Is 50 Mb enough ?
My / is 16 megs and currently half empty even with four different
kernels in /boot. If /usr, /var, /tmp, and /home are elsewhere, / is
kept small and low-access.
|"You might want something like the following:
|"
|" 50MB /
Is 50 Mb enough ?
|" 100MB /var
|" 250MB /var/spool
|" 250MB /tmp
|" 500MB /usr
|" 750MB /usr/local
|" 100MB swap
|"
|"You can then mount / and /usr as read-only. I assume you meant /home by
|""user data".
Yes, that's correct. I o
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Ronald van Loon wrote:
> This leaves about 2.0 Gb for the /, /usr, /var/spool and swap partitions. I
> have another 2.0 Gb disk and I am contemplating to put the swap partition on
> there (for load balancing).
>
> I estimate a need for about 250 Mb spool.
Partitioning is k
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