shen Posted June 3, 2003 Report Share Posted June 3, 2003 Ok I have been using MDK 9.1 for almsot 2 months now...I am going to reinstall now since I have managed to basically tear up my initial install from experiementing anf such..:) Anyways here's my planned partitions.... /, /usr, /home, /var, /tmp The HD I am installing on is a 30 gig HD and MDK will use the entire HD... I know /home will need some space since that will be my home dir so to speak....I know var is generally for log files and /tmp for temp files, /usr for installed apps and such... and / I know everything else goes there.... Anyways just looking for some opinions on how much HD space to alot for each mount point...Open to any and all suggestions..:) Thanks in advance for any suggestions and insight... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted June 3, 2003 Report Share Posted June 3, 2003 here you have some suggestions: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=2225 And here you have some background related (I think this one should be in the FAQs): http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=2307 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted June 3, 2003 Report Share Posted June 3, 2003 if it were me...and I'm normally a little off, I'd do like this: / - 1GB SWAP -700MB /usr - 8GB /var - 5GB /home - 14.5GB /tmp - 500MB My drive is a 100GB as it broken up as follows: / - 3.8 GB 2.5% used /usr - 7.9GB 24.3% used /var - 6.8 GB 35.8% used /opt - 9.8GB 24.1& used /home - 5.2GB 3.5% used /stuff - 59.4 GB 60% used /VMS - 9.8 GB 10% used /tmp - 1.9 GB 1.8% used Granted, thats not efficiency at it finest, but it works for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted June 3, 2003 Report Share Posted June 3, 2003 It's based on your needs. Are you running a web server with a lot of hits? If so, you should allocate space for your /var. If you are not, maybe a /var partition is a waste. I run a home computer with / /usr /home and have no problems.. You might also want to start them all off small and if you need to you can resize or attach new partitions as you need them.. Another thing you can do is check your existing partition sizes use the du -s command for getting a size of a folder and its subcontents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shen Posted June 3, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2003 The system is just a home pc.. will not be run as a public server of any kind. Although for my purposes I will have MySql, FTP, Apache and SSH servers running, SSH so I can connect remotely if needed and FTP to send files and allow friends to log in and grab something if need be.. Apache and MySQL will be used strictly for my own testing purposes.. I guess I should have been more clear on what the pc was going to be used for. ATM my setup is 1 gig swap, 8 gig / and the rest in /home...works great but I was considering alternative setups...So far most of this is mainly a big learning process as I migrate from windows to Linux full time..:) Unfortunately I still have to have Windows at work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 This is my current setup.. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdc7 600M 373M 228M 63% / /dev/hdc8 4.0G 3.3G 691M 83% /usr /dev/hdc9 1000M 355M 645M 36% /home /dev/hdc10 4.9G 3.1G 1.9G 62% /share /dev/hda5 9.8G 5.6G 4.3G 57% /mnt/software /dev/hda6 5.5G 4.3G 1.2G 79% /mnt/media /dev/hdc5 8.7G 7.3G 1.4G 85% /mnt/wintemp /dev/hdc6 9.8G 8.5G 1.4G 87% /mnt/winrip /dev/hdc11 3.4G 1.2G 2.2G 36% /mnt/win2k Note on the / partition. When I did large numbers of rpm updates, I ran out of space. I ended up adding a symbolic link to a folder in /share to add more space for that purpose.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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