Re: Installation Questions

[Suyudi Koeswanto <zlash csd uwm edu>]

On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 01:44:06PM -0600, Stephen Hitchner wrote:
> 
> Also I plan to use my machine for a basic web/ftp server, and coding and programming assignments for school. I just would like to know what people recommend for partitions.  I have two 1 Gig drives
> 
> this is what I thought
> /          100M
> /home      500M
> /var       150M
> /opt       100M
> /usr/src    50M
> /usr       800M
> /usr/local 200M
> swap       100M
> Milo         2M
> 
The problem with your setup above is say you ran out of space on /home but
still have plenty of space in /usr, then you have to start either moving
files and linked them from /home.
Personally for simplicity, I usually use as little partitions as possible.
ex:

/	150M 	(this includes the /var)
swap	100M
Milo	2M
and the rest would be /usr

Then if needed, just make /opt as a link to /usr/opt and same with the rest.
Of course i believe this has some negative arguments too...


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