From: paulm@waitrose.com
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 23:06:03 +0000
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There are lots of religious beliefs about partitioning !
:-) Yeah, I can accept that...
It depends a great deal on what you are going to be doing with the system. I find it very convenient to have my disks split up as follows
/boot -- a few megs for kernel images and boot stuff etc / -- 250 Megs for root /usr -- Huge (!) since most interesting things get put under it /home -- seperate for easy NFS mounts etc, size depends on user population etc. /opt -- kde and some other stuff likes to use /opt /var -- a lot of temporary stuff like log files gets written here
Great, thanks. I'll have to leave it alone for a little while (trying to get some data for an IBMer on what Mandrake's parititioning software has done to upset OS/2s FDISK), but once I can repartition it, that looks like a good split. I was far from sure what sort of space would be required by the various directories. That helps a lot.
disks..I would recommend at least that if you do have >1 disk to put swap devices on a disk other than /usr or /home.
Also a good idea. I do have another disk, but I'm going to have to get a bigger case before I can use it, I think. This one is getting a bit crowded - CD, Tap, floppy and hard drive only leaves one 3.5 slot and one 5.25, cuts down on airflow a bit more than I like... paul. ----------------------------------------------------------- paulm@waitrose.com Paul Marwick - Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, UK Marwick Computer Services - OS/2, LAN & general computer consultants -----------------------------------------------------------