Narins, Josh wrote:
You don't *need* any partitions other than /.
Creating separate partitions for /, /usr, /home, /tmp,
/var, /usr/local, /boot, /var/spool, /var/www, etc.,
is a _convenience_ for better managing your system.
And a real time saver, too! Every other boot one of my
partitions i
ian-user
Subject: Re: hard drive partitioning questions
on Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:12:21PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> thanks to all who responded -- this has been immensely useful. right
> now i'm thinking:
>
> / 100M
> /usr 3G
> /tmp 100M
&g
I will give several levels of answer, since I don't know how much Linux
and filesystem experience you have.
First of all, as everyone notes, drive partitioning is a personal
decision, and more art than science. It varies from machine to machine.
That said, depending on how you want to use your sys
on Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:12:21PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> thanks to all who responded -- this has been immensely useful. right
> now i'm thinking:
>
> / 100M
> /usr 3G
> /tmp 100M
> /var 3G
> swap 384M
> /home rest
That looks better. Probably a bit rich f
hi ya nori
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
...
> - i *do* need to specifically partition /home as its own partition,
> right? yeah, okay, i do. and this can be the entire rest of the
> disk? i don't need to leave anything left over? or should i, just
> as some sort of securi
On Tuesday 31 December 2002 01:12 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> thanks to all who responded -- this has been immensely useful. right
> now i'm thinking:
> - i don't think i need a /usr/local, as i don't think i usually
> download and compile a lot from non-debian sources ... but i might
> be wr
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> thanks to all who responded -- this has been immensely useful. right
> now i'm thinking:
>
> / 100M
> /usr 3G
> /tmp 100M
> /var 3G
> swap 384M
> /home rest
>
> a couple questions more:
>
> - i need to make / bootable, right?
>
> - i don't think i
thanks to all who responded -- this has been immensely useful. right
now i'm thinking:
/ 100M
/usr 3G
/tmp 100M
/var 3G
swap 384M
/home rest
a couple questions more:
- i need to make / bootable, right?
- i don't think i need a /usr/local, as i don't think i usually
download and co
On December 31, 2002 01:06 am, the fabulous Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> there can only be 3 primary partitions if i want a logical one too, if
> i've read correctly ... so, do i make the first three primary, and the
> rest logical? or is there a better method to going about it? it
> doesn't really m
hi ya fraser
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> fraser@shieldaig:/lib$ df -h
> FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 471M 258M 190M 58% /
> /dev/md31008M41M 917M 5% /tmp
> /dev/md14.0G3.3G 5
On December 31, 2002 10:06 am, Alvin Oga wrote:
> i always want at least 6 partitions ( my quirks )
> ( or some silly set of similar sizes )
> - you dont need /boot in modern pcs that know how to get pass
> the first 1024 cylinders ( 500MB ) problem
> ( 500MB is plenty of r
on Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:50:20PM +0100, Heinrich Rebehn ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> >i'm installing debian on a brand-new new hard drive on my home system
> >(i.e., personal usage), and am at the point of making a swap
> >partition. cfdisk is up, and i'm trying to figur
Nori Heikkinen wrote:
i'm installing debian on a brand-new new hard drive on my home system
(i.e., personal usage), and am at the point of making a swap
partition. cfdisk is up, and i'm trying to figure out what partitions
i should specify. i'm reading the the woody installation how-tos [1],
and
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 01:06:29AM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> i'm installing debian on a brand-new new hard drive on my home system
> (i.e., personal usage), and am at the point of making a swap
> partition. cfdisk is up, and i'm trying to figure out what partitions
> i should specify. i'm re
hi ya
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 31/12/02 Nori Heikkinen did speaketh:
>
> > i just bought a new 80G hard drive. i should partition the whole
> > thing, right? i'm thinking:
> >
> > /dev/hda1 -- / (Linux (83)) -- 100M (is this appropriate?)
> > /dev/hda2 -- /usr (83)
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Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 8:11 AM
To: debian-user
Subject: Re: hard drive partitioning questions
On 31/12/02 Nori Heikkinen did speaketh:
> i just bought a new 80G hard drive. i should partition the whole
> thing, right? i'm thinking:
>
> /dev/hda1 --
On 31/12/02 Nori Heikkinen did speaketh:
> i just bought a new 80G hard drive. i should partition the whole
> thing, right? i'm thinking:
>
> /dev/hda1 -- / (Linux (83)) -- 100M (is this appropriate?)
> /dev/hda2 -- /usr (83) -- 1G (too much?)
> /dev/hda3 -- swap (82) -- 128M (i have that much
i'm installing debian on a brand-new new hard drive on my home system
(i.e., personal usage), and am at the point of making a swap
partition. cfdisk is up, and i'm trying to figure out what partitions
i should specify. i'm reading the the woody installation how-tos [1],
and am kind of confused.
OK... my tuppence, after the discussion has finished :-)
1) you have two hard disks, why not split the partitions equally across them
both?
a) when you get an fsck at bootup it runs both hardisks at the same time, sop is
quicker.
b) split the swap across two partitions on two hard disks, with equ
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
> /var is awful large unless you're spooling huge print jobs or running
> your own news server. You could probably reduce it.
I've been hearing that alot. I think i will reduce it, probably 500-700M?
My concern was that i would have enough for /tmp a
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Michael Merten wrote:
> I wouldn't worry about wasting a bit of space on the / partition... it's
> probably the most difficult to fix when you run out of space, so go ahead
> and give it 300-400M. Mine is 500M and runs about 24% used (/home
> included).
But i'm not going to p
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Brad wrote:
> Yes, i realize this is something a lot of people disagree on. Which is why
> i hope to get a lot of opinions!
>
> One partition for swap, one for everything else. From what i've heard,
> not a very good arangement if anything goes wrong.
Also harder to back up
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 10:11:22AM -0500, Brad wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 12:03:39AM -0500, Brad wrote:
> > > 1. If i understand things correctly, /, /boot, /lib, /bin, /sbin, /dev,
> > >parts of /etc, and maybe /root should be on one p
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 10:06:33 -0500 (CDT), Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote:
>
>> The only thing that needs to be below the 1024th cylinder is the
>> kernel (vmlinuz) and LILO's second stage boot loader
>
>Yes, but the kernel needs to be able to access mount
On Tuesday, June 08, 1999 at 10:06:33 -0500, Brad wrote:
> To: Gertjan Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> X-UIDL: 4181e49e7b173d93decf7e7555e9405e
>
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote:
>
> Yes, but the kernel needs to be able to access mount in /bin, init
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 12:03:39AM -0500, Brad wrote:
> > 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, whi
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 00:03:39 -0500 (CDT), Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >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 hysteri
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 12:03:39AM -0500, Brad wrote:
> Yes, i realize this is something a lot of people disagree on. Which is why
> i hope to get a lot of opinions!
>
> 1. If i understand things correctly, /, /boot, /lib, /bin, /sbin, /dev,
>parts of /etc, and maybe /root should be on one par
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Brendon Baumgartner wrote:
> There is a Howto on this. Searhc LDP for it. It goes into great detail.
Not that great. Several docs and HOWTOs mention splitting off /usr and/or
/var and/or /home and/or /tmp, but none recommends sizes that are at all
useful. Most of the size reco
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Orion the Hunter wrote:
> OK, you asked for it...
>
> I would save 500-750MB for later experimentation with other setups (for
> exaple, debian potato).
Actually, i'm running potato right now. Haven't had too many troubles with
it yet, submitted bug reports (usually with solu
make a /var also. You
could seperate /usr and /usr/local also, but that starts to get more
extreme. Its up to you.
Brendon
-Original Message-
From: Brad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 10:04 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Random partitioning questions
Quoting Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Yes, i realize this is something a lot of people disagree on. Which is why
> i hope to get a lot of opinions!
OK, you asked for it...
I would save 500-750MB for later experimentation with other setups (for
exaple, debian potato). You don't need to make a parti
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jun 18 22:30 MET 1998
> To: Max Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Partitioning questions.
> From: Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 18 Jun 1998 22:40:25 +0200
>
> Max Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit prelude.]
: How should I do the partition ? i've "read" the Partition
: mini-Howto. Therefore I will anyway have:
:
: '/' <- a root partition,
: '/swap' <- a swap partition (32Mo).
:
: -1- To achieve what I want
Hi all,
Today's is a great day. A friend of mine and I are going
to have our boxes.
I'm in trouble: I need to have the boxes ready quickly.
i've ordered Hamm CDs, but haven't received them yet. All
I've available is RH5.0 CDs.
i'm _going_ to install it _first_. The way I would like
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