Hi, I generally use 40-60 GB hard drives on our Linux machines. I create a 5 GB root partition, and then all the rest is one big partition. I don't create separate partitions for the various directories in the root partition, like /var and /usr. I never let the installer auto-partition. If you want to repartition without reformating, you could try parted http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/. But don't know if it fully supports ext3. Good luck,
Hidong Brian Davis wrote: > Ok, so what size should partitions actually be ?? > > I am running a server and my /var always seems to be too small. Log > files fill it up, spool files fill it up etc etc. 300Mb free seems too > little on /var. > > /home doesn't leave much suer space. Especially if I turn on Samba, I'd > be stuffed. > > Even /usr is rather full @ 1.9Gb in size. > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda6 372M 329M 24M 94% / > /dev/sda1 45M 8.9M 34M 21% /boot > /dev/sda5 703M 322M 345M 49% /home > none 251M 0 251M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/sda2 1.9G 1.6G 194M 90% /usr > /dev/sda7 251M 147M 91M 62% /var > /dev/hda1 19G 2.7G 15G 15% /usr/local/backup > /dev/hda2 17G 5.2G 11G 32% /opt/archive > > > Most of these were "Auto-Created" when installing. If the OS chose the > sizes wrong, what should I set them to ?? > > Can I reset these on the fly, or does it require a new system build > (Yuk) > > TIA > Brian > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
