Yes, i realize this is something a lot of people disagree on. Which is why i hope to get a lot of opinions!
Right now, i have my entire Linux on one 4G HD (minus some data files and things for Wine to play with on a FAT32 partion on a second drive). One partition for swap, one for everything else. From what i've heard, not a very good arangement if anything goes wrong. So, i'm thinking of backing up everything and making some more partitions. 1. If i understand things correctly, /, /boot, /lib, /bin, /sbin, /dev, parts of /etc, and maybe /root should be on one partition below the 1024th cyl for hysterical reasons, which do apply in my case. Do i understand correctly? 2. If i were partitioning a new HD, what would be a good size for the partition containing just those directories, that wouldn't waste too much space. Right now on my system, du -c reports 18M for that list, so i'm thinking 50M would allow plenty of room for expansion? 3. How about sizes for other partitions? /home i'm thinking 750M (personal workstation, 6 users that are just different mailing addresses for me), 1G for /var (with /tmp -> /var/tmp, is that a bad idea?), 2.1G for /usr. 4. hda1 should be /, but how about the rest? home var swap usr as 2 3 4 5? 5. What am i missing, that i think i fit everything (including 64M of swap) onto a 4G HD? ;) Just trying to learn here.
