[96306] in RedHat Linux List
Re: fs ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Reed)
Mon Oct 26 10:54:58 1998
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:57:53 -0500
From: Dave Reed <dreed@capital.edu>
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from Craig Kattner on Mon, 26 Oct 1998 09:48:01 +0000 (GMT))
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> Now that I have a little more understanding of how my disk should be
> partitioned, I'm thinking of reinstalling. There is one question I have
> though; I store much of the stuff I install in /root. I was thinking of
> making the directory /home/root and linking /root to it (I've already got
> /opt linked to /usr/opt and /tmp linked to /var/tmp) and am wondering if
> this is a bad idea? (For root and opt and tmp for that matter.) I don't
> want to make / any larger than I need to...
What kind of stuff are you storing there?
What makes the most sense to me is to store stuff you install yourself
in /usr/local/src
If I were to start over, I would have three partitions:
1. /usr/local and /home (since these are the files I've installed and
created and thus, need to back up)
2. / for everything else
3. swap
The reason for putting files you install yourself in /usr/local is
that "upgrading" RHL from one version to the next should not overwrite
/usr/local
These are just my suggestions as partitioning is somewhat of a
religious war.
Dave
dreed@capital.edu
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