Partition layout query:

Post #1,255 by inthane-chan 7/10/01 12:38:59 AM Reply	Partition layout query: Ok, here's the setup: 96mb RAM 8gb hard drive System will be used for database development, software development, light web browsing, and as a firewall/gateway for my Win2k machine. I'll also be running Seti@home on it. The personal data partition isn't all that important - I'll end up mounting it using samba from my Win2k machine when I get that figured out. What partitions would you make and how would you break them down? Debian 2.2r3, and I need a swap partition as well.
Post #1,263 by static 7/10/01 3:41:00 AM Reply	Fairly simple. I'd do /boot, swap, then /. It might be a good idea to give /var its own partition, but you'd need to guess about how full / would get to do that effectively. Wade "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
Post #1,278 by admin 7/10/01 9:41:06 AM Reply	How I usually do my dev workstations: 32M /boot 2*RAM for sawp ~30M /boot 250-500M / 250 /tmp 250-500 /var enough on /home for email, etc. The rest on /usr Then, I chown /usr/local to my main user and use that for installing dev software (/usr/local/dev), apps (/usr/local/apps), downloading things (/usr/local/dnl), and source code (/usr/local/src). Of course, Karsten will now tell you that my laptop has everything in one partition in complete contradiction to the above advice. :-) Regards, -scott anderson
Post #1,281 by boxley 7/10/01 10:01:56 AM Reply	I like a separate /usr/local part to throw everything into outside the OS so a reload of the OS will not affect my stuffs. thanx, bill can I have my ones and zeros back?
Post #1,351 by inthane-chan 7/10/01 7:05:53 PM Reply	What I ended up doing: One honkin' big partition for /, one 192mb partition for swap. Anything else, and I started getting massive FSCK errors all over the place.
Post #1,355 by static 7/10/01 8:17:55 PM Reply	So long as it boots, that should be fine. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
Post #1,818 by scoenye 7/14/01 4:07:36 PM Reply	Might that be a dud drive? With everything in a large partition it may not have yet reached parts that it was forced to use with multiple partitions. At least, I've never run into any partitioning related fsck problems on a variety of hardware/partitioning/fs combinations.
Post #2,599 by inthane-chan 7/22/01 8:52:01 PM Reply	Nope. I did a whole fsck of the disk, no problems.
Post #1,391 by Andrew Grygus 7/11/01 1:07:42 AM Reply	I do it different for servers and desktop For a server I have swap / and /u. /u is where all applications are loaded and where all data is kept. Anything anywhere else that must survive is copied to /u for safekeeping. This way, I can wipe the whole OS and install a later version, or I can format and reinstall after an awful crash or admin error without affecting my data at all or my applications. For desktops, most applications like to keep user files and configuration stuff in /home/username/*, so I partition swap / and /home. [link\|www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #1,394 by static 7/11/01 2:32:51 AM Reply	/home is almost always a good idea. It took me quite a while to realize that /home should be as large as possible because in each home directory there are almost no rules! I'd been trying to put stuff in /usr and /usr/src since they belonged to the system. Well, I'd been trying to convince myself of that... Then I realized that I was trying to keep /home/wwb clean for no good reason. Just a few directories are all it takes and it's easy to put in there just about everything I want to play with. My server has a 30Gb drive just for /home. Everything else is on a separate 4Gb drive. Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"

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