Re: Disk partitioning strategy?
According to Peter Halvorson:
> Is it easy to dynamically adjust the partition sizes? make them bigger?
> smaller? (AIX has its bad points, but it does do some neat tricks with
> partitions, disks and filesystems.)
This would be a nice feature that is not currently available.
>
> If I do break up the disk, what sizes work well?
> (50 MB /, 350 MB /usr, 50 MB /tmp, and the rest in /home?)
>
I suspect most installations, especially the single user systems,
use one partition for swap and another for linux. Section 4.2 in the
Installation-HOWTO has a section on what to consider. Also, see the
mini-HOWTO Multiply-Disk-Layout. The following message is dated but
gives actual sizes.
According to wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Kai Petzke) 29 Jun 94 10:52:23 GMT:
> My proposol:
> - Create a small root partition (approx 30 MB)
> - Swap partition
> - /usr partition (read only, approx 300 MB)
> - /var partition (size between 20 MB and 1000 MB, depending
> on how much news and mail you run).
> - /home partition (the rest)
Of course it depends on how the system will be used. An ISP with news and
mail will be much different than a stand-alone, single-user system. It
would be helpful if the 1.1 Beta testers would report the results of du for
their systems and include a description on its utilization.
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