Re: [PLUG] Linux n00b question

["Paul W. Roach III" <paul@isaroach.com>]

Having a separate /var is always a good practice.  Additionally, /tmp is a good one to break out.  This prevents (mostly scripts written by you) from using up all of / with pointless logs or tmpfiles.

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Art Alexion <art.alexion@gmail.com> wrote:

On Jan 5, 2011, at 10:06 AM, jeff <jeffv@op.net> wrote:

> On 01/05/2011 08:56 AM, Steve Slaughter wrote:
>> To save money, I only bought a 1 TB HDD.
>>
>> What, in your opinion, is the best way to partition this drive?
>
> I use a small swap partition, / partition, and a very large /home.
>

On my netbook with one 8, and one 32 GB drive, I put Ubuntu / on the 8 GB drive and /home on the 32. I haven't encountered any problems with the 8 filling up. With a TB, you could probably go with 20 for /. I use 2X physical ram as a rule of thumb for /swap.

If you do something like this, store your VMs in /home.

Older Linux practices were to put /var /etc /opt & /usr/local in their own partitions. There is good reason to consider the last 3, but in those days of smaller hard drives and consequently smaller partitions, it could get tricky.


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