I've just bought SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional.(After almost 2 years on redhat.) Althought it seems like I will get reasonable suggestions on how to partition during boot, and although there are some hints in the documentation that came with the cds/DVD, I thought I'd ask for advice first. My harddrive has 13GB left when redhat is gone. Now I know that quite a lot software will be installed in /opt. Should I set up and how large should an /opt partion be? What about /usr and /usr/local? I would appreciate some suggestions before I start. (On RedHat I spent to much time finding a sensible partitioning scheme on my harddrive.) -- Øystein Olsen, oystein.olsen@astro.uio.no, http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, http://www.astro.uio.no University of Oslo, Norway
On Saturday 03 August 2002 12:39, Oeystein Olsen wrote:
I've just bought SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional.(After almost 2 years on redhat.) Althought it seems like I will get reasonable suggestions on how to partition during boot, and although there are some hints in the documentation that came with the cds/DVD, I thought I'd ask for advice first. My harddrive has 13GB left when redhat is gone. Now I know that quite a lot software will be installed in /opt. Should I set up and how large should an /opt partion be? What about /usr and /usr/local? I would appreciate some suggestions before I start. (On RedHat I spent to much time finding a sensible partitioning scheme on my harddrive.)
Most everything goes into /usr. If you are building a desktop you may end up loading a lot more so if you have 3G it should be at least 1 G for future. /usr/local will depend on your usage, 500M could be plenty. /opt is that optional place of keeping things, I'd say with 13G I'd spend no more than 1G on that. /var would do fine with 500M. /home depends on what you do and where you keep things you download. Now, nothing stops you from simply having a / partition for all. You typically break down a server but if this is a home box you could have a 30M for /boot, 1G swap and the rest /. -- Steve _____________________________________________________________ HTML in e-mail is not safe. It let's spammers know to spam you, and sets you up for online attack through IE 4.5 and above. Using HTML in e-mail promotes it as safe to the uninitiated.
* steve (steve@itcom.net) [020803 10:06]: :: ::Most everything goes into /usr. If you are building a desktop you may ::end up loading a lot more so if you have 3G it should be at least 1 G ::for future. For the most part this is true..but don't count on it. :) ::/usr/local will depend on your usage, 500M could be plenty. /usr/local/ is for self compiled software and software that didn't come from SuSE with the system. If you just use software that SuSE makes pkgs for and never compile things yourself you won't need more then what the other gentleman recommended...if you intend to compile and install anything or use 3rd part softare..you may want more space. ::/opt is that optional place of keeping things, I'd say with 13G I'd ::spend no more than 1G on that. Yes, it's optional..but SuSE puts KDE, Gnome, Mozilla and many other things in /opt so remember if you don't make opt it's own partition ..it will hang off the root directory and it can be quite huge. example: This is my /opt: (ben@zeus) /opt> du -sh [10:13 02-08-03] 1.1G ::/var would do fine with 500M. Should be good. :) ::/home depends on what you do and where you keep things you download. This could be pretty big..depends on your usage. -=Ben --=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- Tell me what you believe..I tell you what you should see. -DP --=====-----=====--
On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 18:39, Oeystein Olsen wrote:
I've just bought SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional.(After almost 2 years on redhat.) Althought it seems like I will get reasonable suggestions on how to partition during boot
Hi Oeysein, I do partitioning that way: - some little boot partition as ext2 (15 Meg on my box) - some swap, as you like it; (I got 512 MB vs 256 MB DDR-SDRAM) - rest is / as reiserfs Eventually create a separate /home partition, this enables you to do an update to the next SuSE release via 'clean install' instead of updating, since you do not need to touch this partition during a clean install. On my box it is 4 GB / and 8 GB /home Btw, the above is fairly similar to what SuSE will do in case you just let it 'auto-partition' and do not really care about it. Cheers ... Wolfi ============================================= mailto:wolfi_z@gmx.net
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