I tend to dislike partitioning into a bunch of small pieces like Red Hat
defaults to. The reason being that you will eventually run out of space
in /tmp or /home or /usr or wherever you don't think you're going to run
out of space (see Murphy's law). For our systems at work (and my home
systems) I usually partition the main drive as follows:
/boot 100MB
/ 10000MB (I load everything on the distribution which leaves me
about 4 GB of slop space for /tmp and a growing /usr)
swap 2-4 GB depending on system memory
The rest goes on another partition that you can call whatever you want
(you can use /home if it makes you feel better ;-)
Jan
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 09:47, Tom Charles-Edwards wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I have just set up my first partition table.
>
> When you specify the mount point for each partition you can use your own title or
> one of those in the menu. I can't remember all of them, but they had names like /
> var, /tmp etc etc.
>
> Where can I find information about which of these I need to create partitions for and
> what they're supposed to be used for.
>
> Currently I have (ext3):
>
> /
> swap
> /home
> /audio
>
> I guess when I'm installing software an arbitrarily structured partition table is likely to
> result in chaos something I'm naturally quite keen to avoid.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Tom
Received on Thu Feb 3 00:15:05 2005
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