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On Tuesday 25 October 2005 04:44, 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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If you think you might do re-installs, put /home on a seperate partition, |
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otherwise I normally just have /boot and /. |
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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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> 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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> 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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> 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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> /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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> 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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> 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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> Is it non standard? |
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> Thanks |
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> Sean |
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