If this is _just_ a kick around machine, / and swap are fine. But, if you are accepting incoming email, and there is the slightest chance you might be flooded with 2 Gigabytes of email (3 attachments from your dear relative!) you will want /var on it's own.
/tmp on its own is really more of a multi-user thing, in my head. That way they can all have a place to have all user's files (world-writable). In that situation, it also makes sense to make sure nothing can go haywire, and hence put it on its own partition. -----Original Message----- From: Michael P. Soulier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 8:11 AM To: debian-user Subject: Re: hard drive partitioning questions On 31/12/02 Nori Heikkinen did speaketh: > i just bought a new 80G hard drive. i should partition the whole > thing, right? i'm thinking: > > /dev/hda1 -- / (Linux (83)) -- 100M (is this appropriate?) /dev/hda2 > -- /usr (83) -- 1G (too much?) /dev/hda3 -- swap (82) -- 128M (i have > that much physical RAM, and > that should be sufficient, right?) should i make this > hda1? > /dev/hda3 -- /var -- 2 or 3 G, as per suggestion of [1] (i like apt) > /dev/hda4 -- /tmp -- 50M-ish? /dev/hda5 -- /home -- the rest, all for > me :) All you really need is swap and /. Making all these partitions ensures that none can overflow into the other, but it's difficult to forsee exactly what your needs will be. For example, I have a 100M /tmp partition, and I thought that would be plenty. Then I started using VMWare. I'm running out of /tmp space regularly now. I really don't see a problem with just swap and /. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/nomime.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. This communication is for information purposes only and should not be regarded as an offer to sell or as a solicitation of an offer to buy any financial product, an official confirmation of any transaction, or as an official statement of Lehman Brothers. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Therefore, we do not represent that this information is complete or accurate and it should not be relied upon as such. All information is subject to change without notice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
