On 2005-02-02T14:27:06-0600, Jan Depner wrote: > I tend to dislike partitioning into a bunch of small pieces like Red Hat > defaults to. The reason being that you will eventually run out of space > in /tmp or /home or /usr or wherever you don't think you're going to run > out of space (see Murphy's law). Check out LVM or EVM. > For our systems at work (and my home > systems) I usually partition the main drive as follows: > > /boot 100MB > / 10000MB (I load everything on the distribution which leaves me > about 4 GB of slop space for /tmp and a growing /usr) > swap 2-4 GB depending on system memory http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/partition-4.html#number is very well written. Get rid of /boot, separate / and /var, /tmp goes on tmpfs in linux 2.6. swap is max memory you will use. Is 2 * physical memory still sound advice? /Allan -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-user/attachments/20050203/cd1a702e/attachment.bin
