That does help give me some direction, thanks. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > >Hiya, > >Here is the breakdown for the general usage of partitions: > >Swap partition should be twice physical ram size. There used to be a >128MB limit, but that is gone now. > >root or / partition holds all system files. RedHat 8, with the >everything option is 4.5 GB. My root is 8 GB since I am greedy. > >/usr/local is where files installed by users will be placed. That should >go accordingly. For example I have Unreal Tournament installed, and that >took up 2.7GB of space in /usr/local/games. This partition should be one >of the biggest if that is what you do. > >/boot holds the kernel and boot files. Mine is 250MB, but that is large. >For RH 8 you can get away with 75MB, but I prefer larger mysel;f as I >keep more kernels around. > >/home is where your users personal files are stored. I have a 20GB home >partition, and I am the only one on the machine. That is overkill in my >case. If you download a lot of software though, which I do, then it >should be sized accordingly. A developer for example would need a larger >/home partition due to all the files they will have. > >/var is traditionally more for logs and print spoolers, but RH has made >it the place for web server files and the ftp root. > >Bottom line is it is all relative to what your purpose is. If the >machine is a web server or ftp server, with the default RH setup, then >/var would be another partition where you would want larger. > >Hope I helped a little. > > >> >> regards, >> >> shane. >> >Regards, > >Eric Burke > >> >> >> -- >> Psyche-list mailing list >> Psyche-list@redhat.com >> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list >> > > > > >-- >Psyche-list mailing list >Psyche-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list regards, shane. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
