[ale] Mounting point layout

[Ken Nagorski]

Hmm - Depends what you are doing...

On a standard home machine I do this

/ - about 25% of drive
swap - around 128 megs
/home - the rest

At work

/ - about 15-20%
swap - 128megs
/var - about 30%
/home - the rest

Really, you may need the logs and you would probally wanna save /home if you
did a reinstall but mostly if the system is hosed. you would be reinstalling
the stuff /var /usr /boot and so on. Now... This could be different. For
isntance there may be a reason you wanna save /opt, or /boot but aside from
the few configs and some stuff I might have installed from source there
really isn't much that needs to be kept in the event of failure. Just keep
backups of configs and I you custom build something tar up the sources when
you are done and save them somewhere.

- Just my two cents - Ken!

 I am installing SuSE 7.3 for Saturdays install fest.  Do I allow it to
> install the default or should I customize it?  I do know how to
> customize it if needed.  I plan on having a internet server including
> http, www, ftp, sendmail and fetchmail.  I will have a separate server
> for a firewall.
>
> Please feel free to “fill in the blanks” on the following which will be
> installed on a 60GB drive:
>
> (swap) 125MB?
> /          ___ GB/MB
> /home  ___ GB/MB
> /opt     ___  GB/MB  (just what is this mounting point used for if
> anything I will use)
> /var      ___  GB/MB
> /usr     ___  GB/MB
> /boot   ___  GB/MB
>
>
> I also plan to add some things like scanner, usb cam, wintv, printer,
> modem. It is a 900MHZ coppermine chip with almost 500MB ddr ram with
> dvd and cdrw drive and sound blaster card for surround sound 5.1
> speaker system.
>
> If I need to add or remove mounting points to that list let me know and
> let me know as to why.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> George




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