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
ns is fsck'ed for having been mounted 20+ times.
But if the whole thing was fsck'ed at once, I might be
fck'ed (if I was in a big hurry, for example)
-Original Message-
From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 10:02 PM
To: deb
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)
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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
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