[ale] Y'all were right about Travan tapes - wish you weren't

griffisb at bellsouth.net griffisb at bellsouth.net
Sun Sep 12 14:15:33 EDT 2004


> 
> From: Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net>
> griffisb at bellsouth.net wrote:
> >> From: "Preston Boyington" <PBoyington at polyengineering.com> sorry to
> >> hear about the trashed system, but getting the home directory in
> >> its' own partition will be for the best (my preference is to have
> >> /, /home, /var, /usr all on their own partitions).
> >
> > Hey Preston - how would I size it to have /, /home, /var and /usr on
> > different partitions? I have a 40 Gig hard drive for messing with. I
> > have a separate hard drive for Windows, so will just leave that as
> > is.
> 
> This is really hard to say without knowing what you do with that box. 
> I've bot a 10 gig /home on one box, which is pretty much unsual, 
> particularily since there's only one user.  If you're going to use the 
> whole 40 gig, here's a starting place:
> 
> / 5 gig
> /usr 10 gig
> /var 10 gig
> /home 15 gig
> 
> You might consider a separate /tmp partition as well.  I've also a 32 
> gig slice named /music and another 32 gig slice named /share.  A lot 
> depends on what you do with the box.  With SuSE, you might consider a 
> separate /opt slice as well.  Mine is 11 gig, but only 1.6 is used 
> currently in a pretty full SuSE install.

Okay, think I'm making some progress. When I went to create partitions, I realized that I can have 4 primary partitions on a disk, then I need to get into Extended and Logical partitions. Right now I have /, /home and swap (I think swap takes a primary partition).

So - would I leave / and /home on primary partitions, then create an Extended partition and put /usr, /var, /tmp and /opt on them?

I use the desktop primarily as a desktop, using OOo and Gimp. Starting to get into docbook creation using Quanta. Want to get into DTP using Scribus.

My kids use it primarily for web, watching TV and playing games.

I also use it as a Samba server, but primarily for print sharing - although I might just say to heck with Samba altogether and use Cups for print sharing (I had Internet printing working under Win2K and printing to a Cups printer before I hacked up my desktop).

Bruce



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