On Saturday 02 September 2006 21:12, Paul Abrahams wrote:
I'm about to organize the hard drive on a new system and I'm looking for advice about partitioning it. The question is: which Linux partitions should be separated out from the root partition? Candidates are /boot, /usr, /var, /home (that one for sure), /tmp, and /usr/local. I can probably make pretty good guesses at the appropriate sizes by looking at my existing systems.
IMO, the only important one to separate is /home. i always keep /usr, /var, etc under my / partition. Sometimes i'll make /boot on its own partition, but in recent years this has come to be an obsolete practice. In Yesteryear, when lilo couldn't read all filesystem types and /boot needed to be, say, ext2, i would split /boot off and make / reiserfs. With Grub this generally isn't a problem. Sizes: IMO 10GB is completely enough for a typical root partition - give the remaining space to /home. In my experience user-specific software gets installed under ~/ rather than /usr/local, and / stays well below 10GB. -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts