[ale] Partitions

[Swantje Willms]

Our partitions look like this (we have a dual boot setup), basically the
same on all machines at home, except that the sizes have been adjusted
from earlier installations based on our usage experience:

	1) Windows (1500-5000M)  (has to be first to work)
        2) /boot (16-100M) (has to be at low address to work)
        3) / (500-1000M) 
        5) /usr (3000-5000M) 
        6) /home (3000-5000M)  (two users under home)
        7) /vmware (2500-5000M) 
        8) /usr/local (2000-5000M) (all the programs we install ourselves
that don't come with Redhat)
        9) /var/www (500-1000M) (That's where the website sits)
        10) swap (600-1000M) 

Just another idea. It all depends on what you intend to use your machine
for.

Swantje

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, jeff hubbs wrote:

> Leonard Thornton wrote:
> 
> > OK, I admit it.....I'm lazy.  I also like to keep things very simple. 
> > On a personal machine (home variety), I have 3 Linux partitions:  
> > 
> > /boot 20Mb
> > <swap> 256Mb (256Mb memory in machine)
> > / (remainder of 8Gb drive).  
> > 
> > That's all....I have not found a good reason on a home machine to futher
> > partition the drive for /usr, /home, /var, etc....
> 
> This is a perfectly fine way to operate, albeit suboptimal (but by so 
> little that it's just not going to matter).  When setting up a machine 
> for home use, that's about all I do unless I'm dealing with multiple 
> drives and I'm dealing with either a space-limitation or 
> performance-improvement issue.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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