Re: [PLUG] Recommendations on how to partition

[Mike Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

Stephen Gran (steve@lobefin.net) had this to say on 11/21/02 at 01:28: 

> If you have more than a couple of users on the box, I like to leave a
> little more room in home, but for a single user box, that should
> probably be fine.  I suppose this is one of those moments where

No, just me. Every once in a while, I let the young cousins log in with
their own userid, and play games, but they don't save files.

> everybody has their own recipes, but mine is generally to leave the most
> room in /home, with divisions something like:
> 
> /       200-250M
> /usr    5-10G (depending on what you want - GNOME, KDE and a lot of apps
>         only fills 3G or so here)

Yeah, me, too, but you never know about the future, especially when you've
got a lot of space to play with. :-)

> /var    2-5G (higher range for servers, lower for desktops)
> /tmp    1G (but only if doing a lot of things like patching kernels)
> /home   everything else.
> 
> This is mostly because I usually install Debian, though, and they never
> install to /usr/local, /opt, or anywhere else oddball.  So no need to

Well, they could. if you apt-get source, don't they put the source in
whatever directory you are currently in? ISTR it being that way. So if I
only apt-get source while in those directories, then that's where they'll
end up. 

Or was it /usr/src?

Or I'm totally misremembering. :-)

> make room elsewhere.  Libranet is a mostly Debian distro, right?  I'm
> not sure how close they stick to it, though.

Libranet is Debian, yes.

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