Message-ID: <200011131437260907.5E512BB5@exchange1>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:37:26 -0500
From: "Tim Duggan"
I'm just in the process of installing SuSE 6.4 on one of my machines. This machine already has two other operating systems (Win95 and OS/2). I have a reasonable amount of disk space for SuSE (around 8 GB), but the available disk space within the first 1024 cylinders is limited (less than 2 GB). As a result, I wanted to partition the drive to leave a relatively small partition below the 1024 limit, and split the rest of the system onto partitions further up on the disk.
OK, put a small partition below the 1024 boundary for /boot (only a couple of cylnders is fine as 8 meg will hold a couple of kernels). IIRC the newest lilo doesn't have a 1024 limit, but I don't think it was in 6.4.
Can someone suggest a set of suitable mount points? I tried using one partition set as /, and another set as /usr, but this isn't a wonderful split - I've ended up with less than 100 mb on the / partition, but close to 1.6 gb on the /usr partition.
What I'm not sure of is whether I should make more than 2
I'd set up a / and /home minimum (preferably on different disks, but...) to keep the system and data seperate in the event of some bad ju-ju, including planned and unplanned "upgrades" ;-) partitions, or
whether there is a better split than the one I've tried. Any suggestions welcome...
This, of course, depends on what you are using the system for. Optimal partitioning for a dedicated mail server will be substantially different from a programming workstation. Keep Ockham's razor handy, simpler is better. Salt and pepper to taste. Tim