Re: Partition Help

2001-09-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya "information" there are varying schools of thought on partitions... - i like / to be as small as possible... - i like partitions for /, /tmp, /var, /usr, /opt and than worry about backups of /etc and /opt only ( /opt aka /home ) - "system stuff" i

Re: Partition Help

2001-09-10 Thread Chris Wagner
So right now everything is on the / partition? Then what you want to do is blow away that huge unused partition and make partitions for atleast /tmp /var /home. /usr if you want plus the swap. You need to size out how much room each of those dir trees is going to need. Then take the box offlin