Hi there, I know that the number and sizes of partitions in a Linux system is a matter of personal taste and philosophy, as pointed out in the SuSE manual. What I'd like to know more about is some of those philosophies. Which directories do some of you create seperate partitions for and wny? Thanks. -- Yatsen Ng yatsen.ng@brunel.nl Den Haag, The Netherlands It said "Needs Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Yatsen Ng wrote:
Hi there,
I know that the number and sizes of partitions in a Linux system is a matter of personal taste and philosophy, as pointed out in the SuSE manual. What I'd like to know more about is some of those philosophies. Which directories do some of you create seperate partitions for and wny? Thanks.
Stuff like this is outlined in the Linux Partition HOWTO at: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition.html You might also look at the Multi Disk HOWTO: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Multi-Disk-HOWTO.html -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) jpennington@atipa.com | http://www.atipa.com /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-241-2641 x107 _\_V -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Hi Yatsen, The idea is that you could want the following partitions for the following reasons: - /boot, because there might be a problem reading partitions whose boundaries are above 1024 cylinders on booting. This can be avoided by making a /boot partition which is totally beneath this limit. - /usr, because it is a large and can be a very large directory as more programs are installed. By making it a seperate partition, you avoid it fills up your system with data so that no more data can be written, which can be a very bad thing for the operating system. - /home, it is (or can be) the place of user home directory's, and these can be large, etc... - /var, because in it are print-jobs and log files and these can be very large, etc... - /opt, same reason as /usr The rest can be in the /-partition, which by then should be a partition which contains mostly essential files, and which surely will have enough space for these. Regards, Sander van Vugt Azlan Training Zoetermeer, the Netherlands. Yatsen Ng wrote:
Hi there,
I know that the number and sizes of partitions in a Linux system is a matter of personal taste and philosophy, as pointed out in the SuSE manual. What I'd like to know more about is some of those philosophies. Which directories do some of you create seperate partitions for and wny? Thanks.
-- Yatsen Ng yatsen.ng@brunel.nl Den Haag, The Netherlands
It said "Needs Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux...
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Yatsen Ng a écrit:
Hi there,
I know that the number and sizes of partitions in a Linux system is a matter of personal taste and philosophy, as pointed out in the SuSE manual. What I'd like to know more about is some of those philosophies. Which directories do some of you create seperate partitions for and wny? Thanks.
For what it's worth, my computer runs SuSe 6.2 and I have the feeling of having reached a good balance (i.e. no partition fills up while others remain almost empty) 2 SCSI disks, 4.3 gig and 550 megs. Its a personnal computer used for developpment and some writing (applix). 4.3 gigs disk : /boot : 4 megs / : 100 megs /usr : 2 gigs /opt : 1.8 gigs 550 megs disk : /var : 80 megs swap : 128 megs /home: 300 megs The last one being never ever re-formatted, even when re-installing from scratch, which happens at least once a year. Contains a directory /home/SAVED which contains : tarballs & rpm's which are NOT on SuSe CD, copies of scripts & config files I had to modify, for re-use after new install. Of course your mileage may vary : swap, obviously, /var depending on wether you load news or not, /home... The balance has been reached after at lest 10 re-partition/re-install, and might be improved int the future, following a few principles : - a minimum of writes on the / partition after install : no log files. I will probably have a /tmp for this reason in the future. I'm trying to figure out the size it should have at the moment - separate whatever comes with the Suse CD (and will probably have to be re-installed sometimes) from whatever was brought by you (datas, sources, downloaded programs...). I would have a distinct /usr/local partition which would not be reformated provided it was not used by the system (this has been discussed recently). - having two disks (or more) has many advantages, specially if they are SCSI : I can re-partition disk 1 without risking to destroy the precious /home, swap is the 'middle' partition of the less used disk (another solution would be to have a swap partition on each disk). My advice : start with 2 partitions (/boot & /) then after a few weeks monitor the use of the directories prone to become partitions. Then make a decision taking into account that and your projects of installing applications. Don't fill up the / partition more than 50% (you never know). The more room you have in /usr and /opt, the freer you are to install new apps. Just my 2 cents, hope it helps and will be improved by other SuSe users with different experiences. -- C-u, A.D. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Yatsen Ng wrote:
Hi there,
I know that the number and sizes of partitions in a Linux system is a matter of personal taste and philosophy, as pointed out in the SuSE manual. What I'd like to know more about is some of those philosophies. Which directories do some of you create seperate partitions for and wny? Thanks.
You probably need to have a /boot partition because there is a problem accessing tracks after 1023 at boot (this is a bios limitation). You probably also want a swap partition. If you dual boot and are paranoid (as I) then you may want to have a vfat partition. The rest, unless you have more disk space than ext2 can handle goes into /. The swap partition is first (as it should be faster there) followed by /boot (so that you can boot) then / and finally the vfat partition. If you really know how your disk is going to be used then you can fine tune all the file systems, in my experience few people know how they will be using their computer. Most of the use of partitions comes from having disks that are too large for the file system or disks that are dangerously small where you need to protect system files from greedy users, neither of these cases should exist at home. /Michael -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Hi, On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Michael Salmon wrote:
Yatsen Ng wrote:
Hi there,
I know that the number and sizes of partitions in a Linux system is a matter of personal taste and philosophy, as pointed out in the SuSE manual. What I'd like to know more about is some of those philosophies. Which directories do some of you create seperate partitions for and wny? Thanks.
You probably need to have a /boot partition because there is a problem accessing tracks after 1023 at boot (this is a bios limitation). You probably also want a swap partition. If you dual boot and are paranoid (as I) then you may want to have a vfat partition. The rest, unless you have more disk space than ext2 can handle goes into /. The swap partition is first (as it should be faster there) followed by /boot (so that you can boot) then / and finally the vfat partition.
In addition to this I would recommend /home to be on a separate partition, in this way you don't risk running of space in the critical system directories because some user program has eaten up all the disk space (unless you have quotas for users). I also appreciate very much having two root partitions, one with my stable linux, and another one where I install new versions/distributions. In this way I can install the latest stuff and try it out without affecting my work environment, I can take my time to make a new installation fully functional, and I always have the old one accessible (I mount it under /other) to see how things were done before. Having /home separate helps a lot in this case, since I keep the same home directory no matter from which partition I boot. I used to have 500 MBytes system partitions with Red Hat 4.2, but with SuSe 6.3 I moved to 2 GBytes, and depending on how much of the commercial stuff you need you may need more. Cheers, Teddy -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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didierj＠club-internet.fr -
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yatsen.ng＠brunel.nl