-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat September 2 2006 12:12, Paul Abrahams wrote:
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 know this question has come up before but I haven't been able to retrieve the answers.
I personally go for segregating /usr/local and of course /home. You might also consider the user /root partition. Since many configs live in various /usr dirs it depends on what you need and what you want to update - since if have custom configs or tweaks and do a install from scratch you may find they're overwritten. Also if you have you own created directories you might want to seg those as well. Cheers, Curtis - -- Spammers Beware: Trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! Like the song say: "Everything's 'Zen'... I don't think so"! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE+d2T7CQBg4DqqCwRAleYAKDLlZipFEt1Qh0VrTljIeyXh5FLLQCghzD0 1VzONlbClAUuc5kVnDAT2xw= =lFPE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----