hi ya marco On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 04:41, Marco Cecconi wrote: > > Hello, I've been having this question on my mind for a bit now: what is > > the best practice to partition a hard drive under Unix, and in > > particular under Linux? At work I try to separate different > > functionalities as much as possible (eg. /boot, /, /var, /home all on > > different partitions). This makes sense since the machines are servers. > > What is your experience regarding workstations? Is there any advantage > > or disadvantage in using a simpler partitioning (eg. only /boot and /)? > > The whole subject is less critical now, but here's how I do it: > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda3 7874560 150520 7324024 3% / > /dev/hda2 46668 2871 41388 7% /boot > /dev/hda5 7874528 1770332 5704180 24% /usr > /dev/hda6 7874528 708628 6765884 10% /var > /dev/hda7 7874528 668568 6805944 9% /home > /dev/hda8 86573816 862620 81313404 2% /data it doesnt matter if its a server or workstation ... "partition scheme" should be independent of its function ( yes, /var/spool/mail might be bigger on mail servers ( yes, /var/www ( aka /home/http ) is bigger on web servers but the number of partitions is the same /tmp should be its own partition because: you should ( require to ) do "chmod 1777 /tmp" /boot is NOT needed ... - /boot was needed in the old days to guarantee that the boot kernel was occupying the 1st 1024 cylinders / - should be as small as possible so that you can always do e2fsck on it and boot into single user - if you only have / and "swap", than your entire 100GB or 200GB has to be e2fsck clean in order to get into single user mode to fix whatever the problem was <swap> you want a swap partition so that if some silly apps uses up all your memory, the system can start doing disk swap and keep going ( really slow ) vs crashing/dying /home all user data goes shere and occupys the rest of the disks only /home and /etc is backed up .. rest of the partitons can be reformated and you shouldn't care since its all backed up on the net someplace or on original cdroms /usr/local might be good to keep(symlink) at /home/local for more user installed modifications lots of various reasons for doing lots of various partitions schemes rest of the "partition howto" http://www.Linux-1U.net/Partition c ya alvin > I could (and probably should) have combined / and /usr, but this > way, /tmp has almost 8GB to play with. > > The *most*critical* things, IMO, though, is to put /home and /data > on their own partitions, so that if you do have to reinstall, you > won't wipe out your data. > > You know, I wonder if it wouldn't be useful to put /etc in it's own > partition, too? With Gnome 2.4 & CUPS, my /etc is 25MB, so a 50MB > partition, like I did for /boot, would be all you'd need, I think. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]