On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 11:49:13AM -0500, Beau Henderson wrote:
> Here's an example of one of my systems which handles everything:
>
> /dev/hda6 1012M 238M 723M 25% /
> /dev/hda1 244M 21M 210M 9% /boot
> /dev/hda7 91G 19G 68G 22% /home
> none 1004M 0 1004M 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda5 2.0G 33M 1.8G 2% /tmp
> /dev/hda2 9.7G 2.9G 6.3G 31% /usr
> /dev/hda3 9.7G 1.8G 7.5G 19% /var
>
> Generally a 512 - 1 GB is enough for tmp. The size of each really
> depends upon what software you'll have installed and where it places
> its files.
Just to put a slightly different point of view, I tend not to use
too many partitions because I end up wasting space and admin time
on partitions I've sized incorrectly. These days you can use LVM to
minimise the annoyance, but it's still an issue.
I've been partitioning like this lately:
/dev/hda1 2.0G swap
/dev/hda2 100M /boot
/dev/hda3 100M /boot2
/dev/hda5 5.0G /
/dev/hda6 5.0G /2
/dev/hda7 rest /export
and then putting large directories like /home and /var/www in /export,
symlinked from the top.
The purpose of the /boot2 and /2 is alternate boot and root directories:
(1) they can be used as a backup of the initial install, and (2) they allow
non-destructive reinstalls - you just install your new OS to /boot2 and /2,
leaving the current OS on /boot and / - that way if you run into problems,
you can just reboot and the old OS is still there.
My AU2c.
Cheers,
Gavin
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