[ale] "Recommended" Partitioning Layout ?

[Jared Lyvers]

I have done the following on my Dell.

/dev/hda1	/boot			500mb
/dev/hda2	swap 			128mg
/dev/hda3	swap			128mg
/dev/hda4	extended		7gig - rest of disk
	/dev/hda5	/		1gig
	/dev/hda6	/usr		1gig
	/dev/hda7	/usr/local	500mg
	/dev/hda8	/var		500mg
	/dev/hda9	/opt		1gig
	/dev/hda10	/home		3gig - rest of disk

Of course, this is just my way of setting up my workstation.  For servers, I
usually have about 4 swap partitions and then a seperate drive(s) for certan
partitions.  Just keep in mind, that u want swap partions at front of disk for
faster swapping.
Jared


On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Courtney:
> 
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> > I'm installing a new 8 Gig HD and would appreciate guidance regarding
> > "optimal" partitioning.
> > 
> > In more particular, with the present setup, I am getting the message
> > when I.....
> > 
> > 	fdisk /dev/hda
> > 
> > 	"partition does not end on cylinder boundary"
> > 
> > Significance ?
> 
> 	It's happened to me, but I had no problems.  Note: this is
> simply MY experience.  It is NOT definitive!
>  
> > >From the perspective of security and backups, I'd be grateful for
> > recommendations regarding /proc, swap, /boot, how many partitions of
> > what type,....... 
> 
> 	/proc doesn't take up disk space, so we can ignore it.
> 
> 	/boot needs to be at the beginning, and small.  8 MB has been
> plenty for me (given that kernels are compressed, and fit nicely on a
> floppy, there is room for 8+ kernels plus the other lilo files that live
> in /boot).  Usually, I have only 3 kernels: a known, reliable, working
> kernel (vmlinuz.old), the current kernel (vmlinuz), and a new one that
> I'm temporarily testing.  When proven reliable, I shift left, and
> vmlinuz.old goes away.  Actually, I copy them in as
> /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14, and soft link the names lilo uses (vmlinuz,
> vmlinuz.old, and vmlinuz.new).
> 
> 	swap, as a rule of thumb should be 2 times physical RAM size.
> This is from yesteryear, when UNIX swapped: that is, whole processes
> were copied to and from the swap device.  Nowadays, most processes are
> paged in 4k chunks, but I still lean toward the conservative approach.
> 
> 	/ should be it's own partition.  With 8 GB, 1 gig should do it.
> It needs to be writable, as this is where pipes are created (among other
> things like configuration files).
> 
> 	/tmp can be it's own partition, but it's only helpful if it's on
> another physical spindle.
> 
> 	/usr can be seperate, and even shared, read-only.  Once things
> are nailed down here, you never have to change it.  Of course,
> /usr/local should be r/w.  2GB may suffice.
> 
> 	/var should be seperate, but r/w.  .5 - 1 GB.
> 
> 	/home should be r/w, and the rest of the disk.
> 
> 	/opt is what lots of folks use for optional packages like KDE,
> WorkPerfect, Informix, Ingres, PostgreSQL, MySql, ....  If it's part of
> /, / should be larger than 1 GB.
> 
> 	I hope this helps!
> 
> Danny
> 
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Jared Lyvers
System Administrator
Lewis Communications | Birmingham
205.980.0774 x3047
http://www.lewiscommunications.com/employees/jaredlyvers

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