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/boot -- 10 to 20MB; holds your kernel files
/	-- 100 to 200MB; your root file system. If make heavy use of tmp files and
log files you might need separate /tmp and /var partitions.
/home	-- your users' home directories; size depends on how many users you
have, and what they want to keep on the system.
/usr	-- make it big! This is where all the software goes.
/swap -- up to 128MB; depends on how much memory you have in your system
(swap = 2*RAM)

Additionally, some people like to have a /usr/local partition for software
that they themselves install. I'd mark the /home and the /usr partitions as
"growable" with Disk Druid as well.

I think it would be a good idea for Red Hat to put in a suggested default
partitioning scheme for set up in future distributions. If I remember
correctly, Solaris x86 comes with just that, and it helps newbies a great
deal.

-- Juha

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kent R. Frazier [mailto:kfrazier NMSU Edu]
> Sent: Thursday, 11 February 1999 04:09
> To: redhat-list redhat com
> Subject: Disk Partitions: How many and what size?
>
>
> I've been looking around the web and in a few books lately and I have
> noticed that there doesn't seem to be a set "standard" for disk
> partitioning.  For example, the Red Hat 5.1 manual recommends 4
> partitions (swap, root, /usr, /home) and lists several others that could
> be added.  The VA Research web page notes that the partitions on their
> systems are swap, root and /home.  While looking at some of the
> documentation for KDE, they recommend installing it to a /opt partition.
>
> Being somewhere between a Linux beginner and intermediate, I don't feel
> really comfortable recompiling programs yet. To date, all of my installs
> have been from rpm's.
>
> Now to my questions:
>
> Is there a common practice for partitioning a HD?
>
> I have a small (2.3GB) HD that I want to install RH5.2 on, what would be
> the recommended partitions and sizes of each to make maximum use of the
> size.  There will only be 2 users.
>
> Thanks in Advance.
>
> Kent R. Frazier
>