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Re: [SLE] What size is your /home dir?
- From: Joe Dufresne <nqs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 16:08:51 -0700
- Message-id: <3EAC6303.7030404@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Ben Rosenberg wrote:
>* Tom Nielsen (tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) [030427 12:29]:
>->I screwed up my upgrade on my 8.0 system going to 8.2 and had to redo
>->the whole thing last night. I didn't have a /home directory and at the
>->recommendation of everyone, I made one before installing.
>->
>->Anyway, I made my /home directory 2GB in size. Is that too big....too
>->small, or just fine?
>
>This is how my machine is layed out. :)
>
>Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>/dev/hda2 2071416 420560 1545632 22% /
>/dev/hdb1 59106972 9500192 46604236 17% /home
>/dev/hda1 5162796 1040640 3859900 22% /opt
>/dev/hda3 22185428 4294060 16764412 21% /usr
>
>And yes, I've found that putting /opt on it's own slice at the beginning
>of the hard drive does speed things up. If one thinks about /opt is
>where KDE lives and those programs are quite large...so having them at
>the beginning of the disk does improve the speed. :)
>
>And I got in the habit a couple years ago of putting /home on a seperate
>disk so I never had to worry about that kind of thing.
>
nqs@Miverna:~> df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 16G 2.3G 13G 15% /
/dev/hda4 23G 3.7G 20G 16% /home
shmfs 62M 0 62M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 16M 4.8M 9.7M 33% /data1
nqs@Miverna:~>
When I upgrade, I'll make a /opt & /usr partition. hopefully goto a
>100GB drive too at the same time
Joe
- --
SuSE Linux 8.1 (i386) | Kernel 2.4.19-4GB / i686
4:06pm up 3 days, 7:46, 4 users, load average: 0.68, 0.59, 0.53
Wear a gun to someone else's house, you're saying, 'I'll defend this
home as if it were my own.' When your guests see you carry a weapon,
you're telling them,'I'll defend you as if you were my own family.' And
anyone who objects levels the deadliest insult possible: 'I don't trust
you unless you're rendered harmless'! L. Neil Smith, The Probability Broach
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Ben Rosenberg wrote:
>* Tom Nielsen (tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) [030427 12:29]:
>->I screwed up my upgrade on my 8.0 system going to 8.2 and had to redo
>->the whole thing last night. I didn't have a /home directory and at the
>->recommendation of everyone, I made one before installing.
>->
>->Anyway, I made my /home directory 2GB in size. Is that too big....too
>->small, or just fine?
>
>This is how my machine is layed out. :)
>
>Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>/dev/hda2 2071416 420560 1545632 22% /
>/dev/hdb1 59106972 9500192 46604236 17% /home
>/dev/hda1 5162796 1040640 3859900 22% /opt
>/dev/hda3 22185428 4294060 16764412 21% /usr
>
>And yes, I've found that putting /opt on it's own slice at the beginning
>of the hard drive does speed things up. If one thinks about /opt is
>where KDE lives and those programs are quite large...so having them at
>the beginning of the disk does improve the speed. :)
>
>And I got in the habit a couple years ago of putting /home on a seperate
>disk so I never had to worry about that kind of thing.
>
nqs@Miverna:~> df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 16G 2.3G 13G 15% /
/dev/hda4 23G 3.7G 20G 16% /home
shmfs 62M 0 62M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 16M 4.8M 9.7M 33% /data1
nqs@Miverna:~>
When I upgrade, I'll make a /opt & /usr partition. hopefully goto a
>100GB drive too at the same time
Joe
- --
SuSE Linux 8.1 (i386) | Kernel 2.4.19-4GB / i686
4:06pm up 3 days, 7:46, 4 users, load average: 0.68, 0.59, 0.53
Wear a gun to someone else's house, you're saying, 'I'll defend this
home as if it were my own.' When your guests see you carry a weapon,
you're telling them,'I'll defend you as if you were my own family.' And
anyone who objects levels the deadliest insult possible: 'I don't trust
you unless you're rendered harmless'! L. Neil Smith, The Probability Broach
nqs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | Blog: http://tigger.tmcom.com/~josad/blogger.html
GPG key: http://tigger.tmcom.com/~josad/GnuPG_Key.html | Geek Code:
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