Re: partitioning

S. Barret Dolph
2004-01-25T16:53:25Z

As always it is good to read your advice. I have learned much from this list
and much from you.

Cordially,
S. Barret Dolph

On Monday 26 January 2004 00:42, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 09:37 PM 1/25/2004 +0800, S. Barret Dolph wrote:
> >I am probably getting too picky about repartitioning my drive but I want
> >it to
> >be set up for a long time. I never use all the space in my harddrive even
> >though it is relatively small. (I only use it for work and don't play any
> >games.)
> >
> >Questions......
> >
> >My old setup
> >
> >sda1 / 1g
> >sda5 /swap 1024k (512ram)
> >sda6 /usr 6g
> >sda7 /home 10g
> >
> >I will be using Sourcemage which puts sources in /var so I have been
> > thinking about taking 3g out of home and making a /var of 3g.
> >
> > I will probably take another 3 out of home and add it to usr/ but that
> > is probably overkill. Neither use too much.
> >
> >I am confused about where /swap should go. I have a SCSI drive and from
> >what I
> >read that should be on the outside. So should I put /swap at sda8? (Given
> >that I have added /var.)
> >
> >I had a /home because it was convenient to upgrade with CD's when I only
> >had a
> >56 modem. Now that I am using a source based installation is the /home
> >unnecessary as I am the only user.
> >
> >Is having a /tmp partition necessary?
>
> Questions of the sort you pose here are hard to answer because they do not
> really have "right" answers. The best partitioning strategy for a specific
> system depends on the anticipated uses for that system, the distro
> involved, specifics of its hardware, and probably yhe personal style of the
> person who will admin it.
>
> My own preference, just as an example, is to minimize partitioning, to
> avoid later needs to repartition when my needs change. So for a 1-drive
> system, I typically do something like this --
>
> hda1 = small (50 MB or so) partition, mounted at /boot
> hda2 = midsize (256-1024 MB) partition, used as swap
> hda3 = rest of disk, mounted as / (root partitionj)
>
> Sometimes I use a 4-partition setup, varying the above as
>
> hda3 = between 10 GB and 20 GB, mounted as /
> (depends a lot on the size of the drive, of course)
> hda4 = rest of disk, mounted as /home
>
> But even there I have systems that depart from those rules ... and, of
> course, multi-drive systems get more complex. But I never find it desirable
> to set up separate partitions for /usr, /var, and /tmp ... I've found that
> making them separate just introduces more opportunities for things to go
> wrong.
>
> That's just me, though ... this is an area where reasonable people come to
> different comculsions about the best approach.
>
>
>
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