Yatsen Ng a écrit:
Hi there,
I know that the number and sizes of partitions in a Linux system is a matter of personal taste and philosophy, as pointed out in the SuSE manual. What I'd like to know more about is some of those philosophies. Which directories do some of you create seperate partitions for and wny? Thanks.
For what it's worth, my computer runs SuSe 6.2 and I have the feeling of having reached a good balance (i.e. no partition fills up while others remain almost empty) 2 SCSI disks, 4.3 gig and 550 megs. Its a personnal computer used for developpment and some writing (applix). 4.3 gigs disk : /boot : 4 megs / : 100 megs /usr : 2 gigs /opt : 1.8 gigs 550 megs disk : /var : 80 megs swap : 128 megs /home: 300 megs The last one being never ever re-formatted, even when re-installing from scratch, which happens at least once a year. Contains a directory /home/SAVED which contains : tarballs & rpm's which are NOT on SuSe CD, copies of scripts & config files I had to modify, for re-use after new install. Of course your mileage may vary : swap, obviously, /var depending on wether you load news or not, /home... The balance has been reached after at lest 10 re-partition/re-install, and might be improved int the future, following a few principles : - a minimum of writes on the / partition after install : no log files. I will probably have a /tmp for this reason in the future. I'm trying to figure out the size it should have at the moment - separate whatever comes with the Suse CD (and will probably have to be re-installed sometimes) from whatever was brought by you (datas, sources, downloaded programs...). I would have a distinct /usr/local partition which would not be reformated provided it was not used by the system (this has been discussed recently). - having two disks (or more) has many advantages, specially if they are SCSI : I can re-partition disk 1 without risking to destroy the precious /home, swap is the 'middle' partition of the less used disk (another solution would be to have a swap partition on each disk). My advice : start with 2 partitions (/boot & /) then after a few weeks monitor the use of the directories prone to become partitions. Then make a decision taking into account that and your projects of installing applications. Don't fill up the / partition more than 50% (you never know). The more room you have in /usr and /opt, the freer you are to install new apps. Just my 2 cents, hope it helps and will be improved by other SuSe users with different experiences. -- C-u, A.D. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/