[luau] HardDisc Partitioning

[Carl Tucker]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 08:37:21AM -1000, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> I am planning to re-install Red Hat and add 2 GB to /home and /usr each 
> (b/c I will need to install Win4Lin by creating a Windows "partition" in 
> /home).  I plan to cut  the root and tmp partitions to 1 GB each.
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> 
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda6              2522048     95608   2298324   4% /
> /dev/hda1               147766      8965    131172   7% /boot
> /dev/hda3              5036316    103112   4677372   3% /home
> none                    257180         0    257180   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda5              2522048     89340   2304592   4% /tmp
> /dev/hda2              5036316   2003808   2776676  42% /usr
> /dev/hda8             13756872     87112  12970936   1% /var

Well, I don't know about Win4Lin, but in general, I'd say
your root directory is much too big.  Once you're set up and
running, / doesn't grow very much.  It says ~ 100M used, I'd
set it at 200M.

As someone else says, /var is pretty big, too.  Since I'm not
running any public servers, I usually make /var pretty small, 
throw all the leftover in /usr, and symlink /home to /usr/home
and /var/log to /usr/var_log.  That may allow a denial of
service of your /usr partition if someone floods your log, but
for a personal machine, that's unlikely.  Personal preference,
I guess.

If Win4Lin does tricky stuff in /var, it may need to be bigger,
but I think 12G is excessive.

-- 
Carl Tucker
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