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

[Nathan J. Underwood]

On the partition sizing issue, I've been using (experimenting) a good 
bit with LVM lately.  Basically, create a 'volume' out of a large drive, 
and split your partitions out of that volume (except for boot, I've 
learned to just leave that as a plain old, non-LVM, partition, but 
that's another post [literally]).  Anyway, I size it the way that I 
*think* I need it, and then change it later if necessary.  Again, it's 
still in the 'just tinkering' stage right now, but I've had pretty good 
luck with it.
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Nathan J. Underwood
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griffisb at bellsouth.net wrote:
>>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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