[ale] Partitions

[Leonard Thornton]

OK, I admit it.....I'm lazy.  I also like to keep things very simple. 
On a personal machine (home variety), I have 3 Linux partitions:  

/boot 20Mb
<swap> 256Mb (256Mb memory in machine)
/ (remainder of 8Gb drive).  

That's all....I have not found a good reason on a home machine to futher
partition the drive for /usr, /home, /var, etc....

If it were an web server or ftp server, I would probably consider
putting /var on a seperate partition (drive actually).  If it was a
multiuser file / mail server, then /usr and /home would get seperate
partitions (or drives).

Depends on what you are building as to what the correct (sic) answer is
to the question.


 
On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 15:34, Alan Bowman wrote:
> I have a question on partitions - I've just gotten back from the
> SuperCompterSale at the Galleria, with a nice new 800Mhz AMD Duron
> machine. It's got all the bells and whistles I could ever hope for, and
> a 20Gb HDD.  I know to most of you that sounds fairly small, but please
> understand that it's taken me nearly 4 years to get to 80% capacity on
> the 4Gb drive in my current machine (P166 w/Slack7).  So, my question:
> how should I partition this drive? How much for /, for /usr, for /home,
> and so on?  If I could get a few examples, I'd much appreciate it. 
> 
> Thanks, 
> ...alan
> 
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