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Optimum partition sizes for RH 5.0 on 1.6G drive



The RH Installation Guide suggests creating multiple partitions but does
not give much guidance on relative sizes apart from:

swap       1x - 2x physical memory
/          50-80 MB
/usr       200-500 MB
/home      ???
/usr/local ???
/usr/src   ???
/tmp       ???

The manual briefly describes the purpose of each of the above but for
someone unfamiliar with Linux its hard to even _guess_ at how much to
allocate to /home versus /usr/local versus /tmp, etc. (oops, should I
say and so on and so on to avoid confusion with /etc?).

I have a trusty old 1.6G drive and partitioned it:

swap       100    (I have 64 MB physical memory)
/          80 
/usr       600 
/home      200
/usr/local 200
/usr/src   200
/tmp       200

I installed RH5.0 lock, stock and barrel (minus CD 2) and intend to do
g++ and Tcl/Tk work on it.

Is my partitioning nuts, reasonable, brilliant?  I'd like, if necessary,
to fix it now while I don't have much invested.



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