[97797] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Harddisk conversion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Thu Nov 5 04:53:21 1998
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 09:47:20 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
To: James Baxter <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Mail-Followup-To: James Baxter <redhat-list@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <199811042237.RAA18828@fw.landmark.com>; from Charles Galpin on Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 05:43:46PM -0500
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Charles Galpin writes:
> >What would be your opinion of a disk (4gig) layout such as:
> >swap 64M
> >/ 3.5gig with all the above as directories under /
> >/var 250M
> >/home 250M
> >
> >
> >Any suggestions which help keep the layout the user sees looking the same
> >would help.
>
> The direction you are going makes this perfectly safe and easy, although I
> would not bother with seperate /var and home aprtitions.
In the contrary - especially on a corporate system I'd highly recommend a
separate /home - that way, your going to have a lot less trouble during the
next upgrade, as /home simply won't be touched. An added bonus is that it is
really easy to replace /home with another, bigger drive, if necessary. As
for /var, well, on a multiuser system it can be using up quite a bit of
space, so having a separate partition might give you that extra bit of
control.
In addition, you might want to consider a separate /usr/local partition.
Why? Well, I for example have the habit of installing all tarballs
(basically all non-rpm stuff) in /usr/local to separate it from the rpm
stuff. If you do the same and you have a separate /usr/local, a system
upgrade becomes easier, as /usr/local won't be touched.
All this might not be as important for a home system, but for a corporate
system I'd definitely consider it.
HTH,
Thomas (who wonders if the 1024 cylinder limit is still an issue nowadays
and if it could spoil the fun with a 3.4GB / partition...)
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