RE: [PLUG] recommendations?

["Brent R. Matzelle" <bmatzelle@yahoo.com>]

Erik,

I would make your / partition somewhat larger, like 200 - 300 MB
because large programs like StarOffice require /tmp to store
temporary files.  If you don't have enough room then the
installation will fail.

Brent

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--- Erik Yunghans <Erik.Yunghans@bentley.com> wrote:
> so maybe ill break it down like this:
> 
> swap -> 512mb (256 mb of ram)
> / -> 100mb (nothing should be here anyways)
> /boot -> 10mb
> /etc  -> 500mb
> /root -> 500mb
> /home -> 10GB
> /usr  -> 10GB
> 
> then i still get 9gb left over... is there a sort of
> percentage basis to go
> off of somewhere? (ie. your /usr partition should be 25% of
> total hd
> space)...
> 
> sheesh. 30gb is pretty hard to fill up, it seems to be quite
> unweldy with
> too much space (plus im a minimalist when it comes to
> installations)
> 
> -erik
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Leone [mailto:turgon@mike-leone.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 2:38 PM
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] recommendations?
> 
> 
> Probably, different partitions for each of the major portions
> of the
> filesystem - one partition for /, one for /var, one for /usr,
> one for /home,
> one for /etc, and one for /boot (the first partition, 10M in
> size or so - to
> forestall any problems with LILO tring to load from beyond the
> 1024 cylinder
> boundary). With different partitions, you can unmount them
> easily for
> undeletion (thank you, Bill Jonas!) or for converting to the
> new ReiserFS
> Journalling file system, for example.
> 
> As for sizes ... no idea. :-)
> 
> Did I get that right?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Erik Yunghans" <Erik.Yunghans@bentley.com>
> To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 2:04 PM
> Subject: [PLUG] recommendations?
> 
> 
> > so i had the pleasure last week of dealing with a dead
> western digital
> that
> > made a horrible screech when booting. needless to say, out
> with the old,
> in
> > with the new!
> >
> > (being a 30gb western digital!)
> >
> > so my question:
> >
> > what do you guys think would be the best way to partition
> this badboy? its
> > going to be all linux, all slackware v7.1, and no one could
> ever give me a
> > straight answer on the best way to go about partitioning on
> linux for
> > optimum performance. if there is any documentation on this,
> please point
> me
> > to it!
> >
> > thanks,
> > erik
> >
> >
> >
>
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