I'm about to organize the hard drive on a new system and I'm looking for advice about partitioning it. The question is: which Linux partitions should be separated out from the root partition? Candidates are /boot, /usr, /var, /home (that one for sure), /tmp, and /usr/local. I can probably make pretty good guesses at the appropriate sizes by looking at my existing systems. I agree with most of the advice given in this thread: /boot - Maybe /home - definitely /usr/local - yes, if you install software other than via RPM /var - sometimes. /var contains log files, spools, print queues and many other files of a volatile nature. In business Unix environments,
On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 15:12:00 -0400
Paul Abrahams