i do stuff along those lines as well ..i dont understand when i installed freebsd it reccomended a 20MB /var partition/slice even though i gave it 6.1GB of space. it doesnt make sense to have such small partitions even if there is nothing on them to me anyways.
nate On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Onno Ebbinge wrote: Onno >Sometimes I don't understand the stratagies used in disk partitioning. Onno > Onno >Please correct me if I'm wrong but I always thought that you split Onno >the partitions by long term usage: Onno > Onno > 1- 2 GB / Onno > 1- 2 GB /var Onno > 1- 4 GB /var/spool Onno > rest on /home Onno > Onno > Then I link /tmp to /var/tmp Onno > Onno > WHY: The chance that / is being filled by a user Onno > is small this way. Email and printing activities Onno > are split from other partitions. Logging, tmp and Onno > such are split from other partitions. And last but Onno > not least home directories are split from other Onno > partitions. Onno > Onno >Ideas and critical remarks are welcome... Onno > Onno >Groetjes, Onno > Onno >Onno Onno > Onno >At 12:48 PM 1/18/00 +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: Onno >> Onno >> Onno >>> I recently got a new 13G hard drive. I've installed it as hdb, and moved my Onno >>> CD-RW to hdc. At the moment I've got a 6G drive with 2G for WindowsNT, 100M for Onno >>> /, 1G for /home and 2G for /usr. I really need more room for both /home AND Onno >>> /usr, but I also need more space for /var and /opt and some others. I would like Onno >>> to make several partitions and use them to my best use, I just wanted to get Onno >>> some recommendations from the Expert/Experienced before I partitioned this Onno >>> drive. I also would like to have a few partitions set aside for CD images as I Onno >>> hope to start selling Software on CD as well. Onno >> Onno >>I don't know if you're willing to reinstall completely or just want to add Onno >>the space, if you're willing to reinstall I would: Onno >> Onno >> 1) Your current hd 4 GB on / Onno >> 2) New hd 5 GB on /home Onno >> 3) New hd 8 GB on /usr Onno >> Onno >>That way you'll have more on /home, /usr, /var and /opt (both /var and Onno >>/opt will be on /). Onno >> Onno >>If you don't want to reinstall you could set a 5 GB on /home and remount Onno >>your current /home to /var or /opt (whatever you prefer). That way you'll Onno >>have more on /home and on /var or /opt. Then you create the 8 GB, mount it Onno >>somewhere, cp the /usr to that partition, following you mount your current Onno >>/usr to /var or /opt (just the one you hadn't used) and mount that new Onno >>partition to /usr. (It'll probably need a reboot because you can't umount Onno >>your /usr (maybe you can after a init 1 (runlevel 1 single user), I've Onno >>never tried). Onno >> Onno >>Ron Onno >> Onno >> Onno >>-- Onno >>Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Onno >> Onno >> Onno >> Onno > Onno > Onno >-- Onno >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Onno > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 8:59am up 151 days, 21:03, 1 user, load average: 1.87, 1.67, 1.58
