Re: Recommended Partition Sizing

[Bob Koss <rskoss infinet com>]

You might consider putting /home and /usr/local on their own partitions. 
That way you can 1) back them up, and 2) recover easier if you ever have 
to reinstall.

You can link /opt to /usr/local/opt.

Bob

On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, randomc wrote:

> Hi all.
> I have a P-100 w/32 meg of ram I'd like to set up as a server for a small
> business.  I have two 1 gb. hard drives available for this machine.  My
> question is what size should my partitions be based upon where Linux
> installs most items?
> 
> I was considering the following:
> on hda / - 100 meg
>             swap - 64 meg
>             /usr - 800 meg
> 
> on hdb /opt - 400 meg (for Word Perfect 8)
> 
> What else should I consider when setting up partitions?
> 
> TIA
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
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