Re: File systems

[Paul Braman <braman tsc-corp com>]

On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Anoop wrote:

> Hi there, I got a new machine with 8GB hard drive. Could some one tell me 
> what filesystems to have how much of size.

Here's an example of how I have my partitions set...

	+----+---- 512 Meg
	|    |
	v    v
	+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
	|      /       |  /opt   |     /usr     |
	+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
	|    /home     |/tmp|     /var     |swap|
	+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+

This allows maximum flexibility and is Filesystem Hierarchy Standard 2.0 
compliant.  The important aspects are:

1)  The swap partition is kept at the outer edge of the hard disc.  This 
reduces the time it takes to randomly swap something out.

2)  The /var partition is just that...a partition.  It prevents it from 
growing so large as to reduce space in other sections.

3)  The /usr partition is seperate and may be turned to read-only.

Now, I have it across two hard drives, so you might want to lump together 
/, /opt, and /usr into one, large partition.  Likewise /home may be 
lumped in there if need be.  /tmp may be made a symbolic link to /var/tmp 
or a directory under there, but that defeats the purpose of having them 
seperate.

Paul Braman
braman tsc-corp com