Hello Mitch, Am 15:39 2003-03-16 -0500 hat Mitch Maltenfort geschrieben:
>This new laptop will have a 30 Gig HD, and my reading indicates that >ext2 file systems can run into performance problems on partitions over 6 >Gig. ??? Never I have hd this problems... even on a 60 Gbyte HD >Brute-force math would suggest I divide into 5 6 Gig partitions, but of >course 6 Gig is too much for something like /boot, /var, etc. My current >computer has 6 Gig and I don't even use all of _that_. > >Can anyone advise on a good partitioning choice for a personal workstation >for word processing and scientific programming? hda1 pri / 200 MB hda2 pri swap 100 MB hda3 pri /tmp 1000 MB hda5 log /usr 3000 MB hda6 log /usr/src 5000 MB if you program otherwise 500 MB hda7 log /var 1000 MB or bigger if you like to hold your installed packages and by using apt-move) hda8 log /var/log 200 MB keeps you back from headache hda9 log /home 40000 MB hda10 log /var/www 10000 MB if you like to have a full i386 Mirror on your Laptop to help other people to instal Debian with the speed of the light using the netinstall All Filesystem are ext3 while using Kernel >=2.4.19 >Thanks in advance. Have Fun Michelle