Re: Red Hat doesn't use all my hard drive space...

[Sean Earp <smearp mac com>]

On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 11:17 AM, Jay Crews wrote:

> Yes.
> Because you did not partition it as anything.
> You only format partitions that you have layed out and
> allocated to something.  In your case,
> /boot	100MB
> /	29.9GB
> swap	1GB
>
> Which is fine, but it's a little cleaner to split that 29.9GB
> up into /home, /usr, and /var
> But if you are already installed and running fine, no big deal.
>
> So now you have 29GB of free space that you can use later
> if you need to.
> In your case, you might want to consider a backup partition
> on that second drive since all your real stuff is on the first
> HD.  If HD 1 dies, then you have your data safely backed up
> on HD 2.  But there is no need to partition and format disk
> apace just because it's there.  Down the road, you might find
> something that you want it's own partition for.
>
> Make sense?

Thanks Jay-

As a Linux Newbie, I was going with the automatic partition layout 
provided by the Red Hat installer.  If I read your post correctly, the 
automatic partition setup is not necessarily the OPTIMAL partition 
setup, which makes perfect sense.  Is Red Hat going for a "lowest 
common denominator" setup in their utility as opposed to providing an 
optimal setup? (Several users have recommended having dedicated /usr 
/var etc partitions...) Any reason why Red Hat would not have this 
layout setup by default?  Just curious,

-Sean