Sandy wrote:
Looks like I'll repartition the total 6G when 5.3 arrives. Any suggestions as to partition sizes and mounting filesystems. I'll only have SuSE installed so no need to consider other OS's.
Here is my current /etc/fstab: /dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1 100 megs /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 64 megs /dev/hda7 /opt ext2 defaults 1 2 300 megs /dev/hda8 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 1850 megs /dev/hdb1 /dos vfat defaults 0 0 2000 megs /dev/hda9 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 200 megs /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat rw,noauto,user 0 0 -- /dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user 0 0 -- /dev/hdd1 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user 0 0 -- none /proc proc defaults 0 0 -- For any box that has 1-3 users, I would say that 100 megs for / is sufficient. I have always used a 300 meg /opt partition, but I think when 5.3 shows up I will do away with it and just symlink /opt to /usr/local. /home really only needs to be as big as the largest download you might make as a regular user. /home really isn't the best place to keep binaries or to archive all your mp3s or whatever, so it doesn't need to be that large. I put each of my removable media devices in fstab and create directories for them in /. I find 'mount /dev/fd0' faster than 'mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt' so I have mount points for each. This is strictly a personal preference. I also use vfat for the fs of removable media because this is readable across platforms, but this won't affect you unless you swap data between os'es. I have a vfat partition /dos mounted at boot. This contains quake, quake2, all my mp3s, midi, images, emulators and roms, etc. These files are used in win95 and linux, and it just makes more sense to not duplicate the files as this partition is usually 1.5 gigs of data. /usr is the partition where almost everything you do will be located, so make /usr as big as possible and get in the habit of keeping files in /usr. It doesn't make much sense to have a big /home on a family pc, use /usr where possible. This is all really subjective, and I'm sure that some will find fault with my recommendations. Some people like one big / partition. That's a bad idea. If / goes, you are screwed. If /home goes on my box, I can recover. -- .###. /#######\## -==============================================- ;##### ;# Mike's WindowMaker ;##### ;# <A HREF="http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org/windowmaker.html"><A HREF="http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org/windowmaker.html</A">http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org/windowmaker.html</A</A>> \# /## -==============================================- ###'---'#### - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e