Re: partition advice needed

[Karl Pearson <karlp ourldsfamily com>]

This may be unpopular, but with the size of backup tapes now, which was the
primary reason for partitioning into separate filesystems, I can backup a
single root partition which holds my entire disk. So, I create a swap file
=> memory, then one filesystem with the rest of the disk and mount it on
root.

That way, you don't have to worry about running out of space on a given
filesystem. With the purpose you stated for this server, I honestly can't
think of any drawbacks.

Karl L. Pearson
Senior Consulting Systems Analyst
Senior Consulting Database Analyst
karlp ourldsfamily com

On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Danny Wheeler wrote:

> I am setting up a new computer with linux and this one will have a larger hard drive about 10 gig.
> On another computer I am using:
>
> /                          78Mb
> /usr                      700MB
> /var                      151MB
> /usr/local               120MB
> /home                   100MB
> swap                     256MB (= to memory)
> /usr/src                  11MB
>
> The above is on a computer with a much smaller HD. For this computer I will only run linux. I will be installing as much software as I can get my hands on and there will only be two users. This computer will be for learning and will have almost all services running at one time or another. I will be installing everything on the install cd's (RH 7.0 for now).
>
> any and all advice appreciated
>
> Danny Wheeler
>