Re: Question on Paritioning

[Chinmay Nadkarni <chinmayn netscape net>]

A few tips ...

I'd leave a good deal of room for /usr, since that is where the bulk of 
your installed software goes. On a 20GB drive, I'd say about 8GB for 
/usr. You can either create a seperate partition for /usr/local, for 
other software you will install later, or just make more room on /usr, I 
prefer the latter.

If you will be the only one using this laptop, and you dont expect to 
create many user accounts, dont keep too much room for /home, maybe no 
more than 2-3GB.

I also create a seperate partition for downloaded software /download. 
All downloaded ISOs, patches and RPMs go there..

Apart from that I just leave enough room on / (3-4GB) rather than 
creating seperate partitions for /var and /opt. I cant say whether that 
is the best approach or not, but it has worked for me so far.

With 512MB memory, I would add a swap size of not less than 512MB, upto 1GB.

Jst my 2c worth. Regards.
- Chinmay.


Ava Martin dia mil wrote:

> I'm at work right now, but if my memory serves me correct it was multiple
> ones, /, /opt, and I believe /var.  The main problem is that you don't find
> out the partitions are not large enough until the install gets ready to
> start.  By then, it's too late to go back, you have to start all over.
>
> Basically, I'd like some ideas for partition sizes.  Say if I have a 20GB
> drive what would be a suitable, good partition layout, keeping in mind I'd
> like to do a complete full install.  
>
> Respectfully,
> Ava M. Martin
> Information Assurance Analyst
> Defense Intelligence Agency
> 202.231.4457
> Email: ava martin dia mil
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>
> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:37:42 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday mindspring com>
> To: "'redhat-list redhat com'" <redhat-list redhat com>
> Subject: Re: Question
> Reply-To: redhat-list redhat com
>
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Martin, Ava wrote:
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> > Good Morning,
> >
> > Sorry if this came twice, I forgot to change the format on the first one,
> >    
> so
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> > I'm resending as plain text format.
> >
> > Please forgive me if my question seems trivial.  I am trying to install
> > RedHat 8.0 Standard on a Dell Inspiron 5100 Laptop.  The laptop has a 60GB
> > hard drive with 512M of RAM.
> >
> > I have used Partition Magic 8 to free up 18GB for RH.  I am also running
> > Windows XP.  
> >
> > I wanted to do custom partitions but keep receiving errors that my
> > partitions are not large enough.  Could someone please send some examples
> >    
> of
>  
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> > recommended partition sizes if I wanted to do a full complete install of
> > RH8?
> >    
>
> can you be more specific?  is it telling you *which* partition is
> too small?
>
> rday
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