I have about 720 mg available for Linux over hda (a 2.1gig Seagate) and hdb (a 1.2 gig whatever). I can allocate partition sizes pretty much as I

please.

My sense is that I should devote a 100 meg partition in hda2 to root /, another 64 megs to a swap partition on hda, and about 560 megs on hdb to

/usr.

I have two questions:

1) Is this an optimal strategy? The system will be single user, and will not be used as a server.

I would put a little more (let's say 200 megs) on the root /, because you have => /tmp <= and /home, as well as /var, which is commonly used for mails (not in your case) and logs...

2) When installing, how do I get /usr into a different partition/physical drive? Or do I have to move the filesystem after installation? I don't quite get the concept here. Will I have to mount hdb2 by hand every time I boot?

This is _very_ easy... read the "mount" man page for information, and then edit /etc/fstab There, you can automate the mounting of partitions at boot time... A line to add would be, like, /dev/hdb1 /usr ext2 defaults 1 1 (this should work...) Don't ask me what the "1 1" is, I don't really know (it's something with mounting priorities), but it does work with does values...

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