Re: [SLE] The number and sizes of partitions
Yatsen Ng
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.
Hello,
Here is what I'm running at present. There is nothing very notable about
my setup, and others will have something very different. In time you will
find what works best for you.
/dev/hdb1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb2 /var ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc2 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb3 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda1 1211511 402090 746826 35% /
/dev/hdb2 745326 197288 509533 28% /var
/dev/hdc2 3072572 1733693 1179943 60% /usr
/dev/hdb3 1416180 463011 879989 34% /home
I have swap at the beginning of hdb because my second drive is faster. I
have /var mounted on a separate partition because I run a small local news
server (leafnode) and I don't want to take a chance on /var filling up all
available disk space in / and causing a crash. I have /usr on a separate
partition (and another drive...) because it's pretty big. I have /home on
a separate partition so I can preserve personal stuff when I upgrade or
change distributions. I also have a couple of other partitions with
specialized stuff that I don't mount all the time.
HTH, YMMV, etc...
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Bud Rogers
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