Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.
i do stuff along those lines as well ..i dont understand when i installed
freebsd it reccomended a 20MB /var partition/slice even though i gave it
6.1GB of space. it doesnt make sense to have such small partitions even if
there is nothing on them to me anyways.
nate
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Onno Ebbinge wrote:
Onno >Sometimes I don't understand the stratagies used in disk partitioning.
Onno >
Onno >Please correct me if I'm wrong but I always thought that you split
Onno >the partitions by long term usage:
Onno >
Onno > 1- 2 GB /
Onno > 1- 2 GB /var
Onno > 1- 4 GB /var/spool
Onno > rest on /home
Onno >
Onno > Then I link /tmp to /var/tmp
Onno >
Onno > WHY: The chance that / is being filled by a user
Onno > is small this way. Email and printing activities
Onno > are split from other partitions. Logging, tmp and
Onno > such are split from other partitions. And last but
Onno > not least home directories are split from other
Onno > partitions.
Onno >
Onno >Ideas and critical remarks are welcome...
Onno >
Onno >Groetjes,
Onno >
Onno >Onno
Onno >
Onno >At 12:48 PM 1/18/00 +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote:
Onno >>
Onno >>
Onno >>> I recently got a new 13G hard drive. I've installed it as hdb, and moved my
Onno >>> CD-RW to hdc. At the moment I've got a 6G drive with 2G for WindowsNT, 100M for
Onno >>> /, 1G for /home and 2G for /usr. I really need more room for both /home AND
Onno >>> /usr, but I also need more space for /var and /opt and some others. I would like
Onno >>> to make several partitions and use them to my best use, I just wanted to get
Onno >>> some recommendations from the Expert/Experienced before I partitioned this
Onno >>> drive. I also would like to have a few partitions set aside for CD images as I
Onno >>> hope to start selling Software on CD as well.
Onno >>
Onno >>I don't know if you're willing to reinstall completely or just want to add
Onno >>the space, if you're willing to reinstall I would:
Onno >>
Onno >> 1) Your current hd 4 GB on /
Onno >> 2) New hd 5 GB on /home
Onno >> 3) New hd 8 GB on /usr
Onno >>
Onno >>That way you'll have more on /home, /usr, /var and /opt (both /var and
Onno >>/opt will be on /).
Onno >>
Onno >>If you don't want to reinstall you could set a 5 GB on /home and remount
Onno >>your current /home to /var or /opt (whatever you prefer). That way you'll
Onno >>have more on /home and on /var or /opt. Then you create the 8 GB, mount it
Onno >>somewhere, cp the /usr to that partition, following you mount your current
Onno >>/usr to /var or /opt (just the one you hadn't used) and mount that new
Onno >>partition to /usr. (It'll probably need a reboot because you can't umount
Onno >>your /usr (maybe you can after a init 1 (runlevel 1 single user), I've
Onno >>never tried).
Onno >>
Onno >>Ron
Onno >>
Onno >>
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