Re: Partitioning for RH5

["Aaron W." <kaw camalott com>]

>>I'm about to install RH5 on my computer, and I have set off 1400MB for it,
>>120 of which I was planning to use as swap space. Now, could someone give me
>>a few tips on how I should partition the rest ? I want a separate /usr and
>>/home partition, but I need to know how much space I should assign to each,
>>and how much I should have on the root partition.
>
>Here's how I have mt 1.6 gig drive partitioned:
>
>/		150 meg	21% used
>/home	350 meg	11% used
>/usr	900 meg	55% used
>/var	80 meg		19% used
>swap	128 meg
>
>Obviously, I could have made a 50 meg / partition and been okay.  I could
>have taken from either /home or /usr to give to the other, depending on if
>I was going to have a lot of users or applications.

   If you are installing on a single user system do you need a /home
partion? Is there some sort of partitioning scheme that is set as a
standard? It seems like I remember someone talking about being complliant
with some sort of standard?