Re: File systems

[Anoop <anoop csl uta edu>]

Thanks a lot Paul!

On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Paul Braman wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
> 
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