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On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 09:44 +0000, sean wrote: |
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> I know this can be a tough call on how to partition a drive, but I am |
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> looking for some input. |
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> My system will be used as for my own personal use, no server for |
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> outside, though I may run a web server for private in home use, some |
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> games, whatever I wish to play and experiment. |
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The most simple and effective partition setup for a basic install is |
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just boot-root-swap! ie, a /boot partition, a / and some swapspace. |
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Everything else can hang off there. |
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If however, you're like me and you have lots of user downloaded stuff, I |
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would consider either an extra /home partition, or an ftp shared |
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directory where all your vids / music / games / bug stuff can go. |
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> Users, mainly just me, and perhaps a family member or three. |
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> Here is what I quickly setup. |
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> $ df -h |
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> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on |
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> /dev/hda3 471M 271M 176M 61% / |
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> udev 1004M 208K 1004M 1% /dev |
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> /dev/hda1 38M 2.6M 34M 8% /boot |
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> /dev/hda5 4.6G 185M 4.2G 5% /var |
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> /dev/hda6 31G 2.3G 27G 8% /usr |
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> shm 1004M 0 1004M 0% /dev/shm |
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personally I wouldn't bother with usr and var, but many people will |
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disagree. |
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> What caught me off guard was that fact that /home is located under / and |
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> that is where my user profiles are being set, instead of /usr/home like |
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> it is on my freebsd system. |
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> When I copied over my personal files, it quickly filled up the / |
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> partition, which I have since deleted. |
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*lol* You've since deleted the / partition? How is that working for |
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you?!! |
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> Now I noticed that there is a /usr/home, what exactly is that used for, |
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> since users are not there by default? |
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you probably made it by mistake when copying stuff from your freebsd |
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machine. |
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> I would figure /boot does not really change much in size, leave as is, |
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> maybe shrink a few mb. |
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I couldn't see a /boot in your `df -h` list, probably because it wasn't |
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mounted. I've never needed a /boot larger than 100Mb, and I'm |
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constantly recompiling kernels, with a few old versions lying around |
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in /boot just in case. |
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> /var, up and down, perhaps bring it down a gig, gig and a half. |
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> /usr, would grow depending on software installs, much as possible. I |
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> have not installed much currently. |
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remember /usr/portage. This can potentially hog a lot of space. I have |
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a final partition (ok I lied about only having boot-root-swap :) mounted |
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as /home/ftp/pub/gentoo, which is mounted again as /usr/portage. This |
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lets me share my distfiles with others, as well as keeping the size |
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of /usr down. |
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> If /home was on its own, I am guessing that the current / allocation |
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> would be fine? |
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> Anyone confirm? |
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If you want to keep / small, then don't forget about /opt. Quite a few |
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(but getting fewer and fewer) large apps install themselves there. |
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ATM in /opt I have enemy-territory, quake 3, blackdown jdk and jre, |
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vmware, and acrobat 7, as well as some others, totalling 1.1Gb!! |
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> Now I just have to figure what I want /home to be, or perhaps could the |
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> default setup for users be located in /usr/home? |
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> Would this cause problems? |
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possibly |
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> Is it non standard? |
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What standard? The everybody-else-does-it standard, or the LFS |
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standard??!! |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> |
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