On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 00:06, Allan Wind wrote:
> 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.
>
LVM can be bad news. I was using a logical volume manager under
HP-UX in the olden days and it can be a bitch to recover from errors.
Maybe things have changed recently though.
> > 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?
>
>
It should be.
Jan
