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Re: [SLE] A couple of upgrade related questions
- From: daubery@xxxxxxxxxx (Des Aubery)
- Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 17:26:05 +0200
- Message-id: <3986EC0D.E2E6ED78@xxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Jon,
I initially considered splitting up the files system along similar lines
to you, but on second thought opted to use the simple approach as I
listed (repeat below):
>
> 2. My partition scheme is as follows - in order:
> a. 1 sector -> /boot
> b. 512Mb -> swap (answer to point 3.)
> c. 10Gb -> /
> d. Remainder -> /home
>
My logic was as follows:
1. I felt that it was preferable to leave all system, package and
related software in the / (root) directory. This allows SuSE to put
files into the relevant folders/directories as it sees fit. In other
words - /usr ... /usr/local ... /var ... /dump ... /tmp ... are all
located in the / partition.
2. Splitting up the directories invariably means that a lot of space
gets wasted in each partition - this can add up...and so wastes a lot of
space :-(
3. I split my "/home" partition into a number of user-group areas
anyway - and tend to keep an master archive of additional software - in
this partition - until it is archived to CD-rom.
4. I see no point in running 2 X 128Mb swapdisks - I would rather use 1
x 256Mb.
5. I find a simple system is easier to maintain... :-)
Jon Tillman wrote:
>
> On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Derek Fountain spewed forth into the void:
> > > So, would the following be considered needlessly complex?
> > >
> > > [swap] 128M x2
> > > / 001G
> > > /boot 1 sector
> > > /usr 010G
> > > /usr/local 007G
> > > /home 010G
> > > /var 500M
> > > /dump 002G
> > > /tmp 100M
> >
> > That would leave /opt in a 1 gig partition. Is that a bit of
> > a squeeze? I have over 2 gigs of stuff in /opt on the
> > SuSE-6.4 machine I'm typing this on.
>
> Good point, I should probably shave some off here and there, probably from /usr
> and /usr/local (1g apiece maybe)
>
Have lots of fun ...
Best regards,
Des Aubery...
(adTherm Technologies, East London, E.Cape, South Africa)
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