Guest timelord Posted November 22, 2003 Report Share Posted November 22, 2003 What type of partition arrangements does everyone use? A single partition? Separate partitions for / and /home? More than that? And if you use multiple partitions, what size are they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted November 22, 2003 Report Share Posted November 22, 2003 Can't quite remember the size, but here are some approximate for what I use 2-3G - / 10G - /home 5G - /usr 1G - /var/www 30G - /Share 768M - /swap I think that is all that I have, not sure though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted November 22, 2003 Report Share Posted November 22, 2003 Linux can't use just one partition. It needs at least 2 one for / (root) and one for /swap (the swap partition) I use 10 The first for windows. So small now I can't load any games into it. Mandrake 9.1 / I use 2.5 gig for that. Its a little big but hey I got the room. /user 3 gig. /var 1 gig Hey I got the room. /home 20 gig WAY more than I need but hey.... /tmp 1 gig The Gimp needed a bigger temp file area than normal for some REALY big files. /swap 1 gig And the second drive Mandrake 9.2 with 2 basic partitions. / (root) /home the swap for 9.2 and 9.1 are shared. And the last 10 gig is a big empty FAT32 partition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted November 22, 2003 Report Share Posted November 22, 2003 I use separate partitions, it makes backup with partition imaging easier.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted November 22, 2003 Report Share Posted November 22, 2003 Mandrake 9.2 has: / @4.8G, /home @9.7G, /usr @9.8G, and a swap of 299MB. Fedora has: / @9.8G, and a /home @3.6G. Fedora uses the same swap as Mandrake. I also have windex xp on a 9.8G partition and a FAT32 partition of 8.8G for shared data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted November 22, 2003 Report Share Posted November 22, 2003 30GB Maxtor Win98=7GB, hda1 Win2k=10GB, hda5 ML9.2's /=3GB, hda6 swap=200MB, hda7 SuSE's /=3GB, hda8 /share (bkup, media)=6GB, hda10 NOTE: no /home. Even though I run as root now, like I did the first year I used linux, when I did run users /home was pretty worthless to me since I have the /share partition. Preferences should always be backed up and allowed to be replaced when upgrading distro/DE versions anyway, so IMO, /home is a waste of space, especially when space is limited. If you're going to bkup partitions like cannonfodder then you at least want a separate /usr partition from /. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drake_guru Posted November 28, 2003 Report Share Posted November 28, 2003 Drake 9.2 - / 850 MB (reiser) /usr 8.2 GB (reiser on LVM) /var 1.2 GB (reiser on LVM) /opt 6 GB (reiser on LVM) /tmp 900 MB (reiser on LVM) /data 48 GB (reiser on LVM) swap 500 MB (on LVM) SuSE 9.0 same as Drake, but sharing swap and /data Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted November 28, 2003 Report Share Posted November 28, 2003 how come nobody is putting /tmp on a separate partition? afaik it is not one of those directories that needs to be in the root partition. or is it? anyway, i have separate partitions for anything but I symlink /var/tmp to /tmp. i allocated 1GB to /tmp since i was previously doing wine-cvs and it needed 800MB in /var/tmp. next time i reinstall im doing it simpler like /-/usr-/home-/tmp-/data. currently i have 11 partitions for my mdk9.1 system and that doesnt include the windows partition. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted November 28, 2003 Report Share Posted November 28, 2003 I do. But it was only to keep the gimp from stalling on me doing some really big files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted November 28, 2003 Report Share Posted November 28, 2003 I do. But it was only to keep the gimp from stalling on me doing some really big files. sorry, i didnt see your configuration too well. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted November 28, 2003 Report Share Posted November 28, 2003 wasnt there a threadon this not long ago? anyway, i have: /dev/hda7 2.0G 1.5G 470M 76% / /dev/hda8 945M 718M 180M 80% /home /dev/hda5 473M 393M 81M 84% /home/james/share /dev/hda6 908M 663M 246M 73% /home/james/music /dev/hda1 1.5G 1.5G 34M 98% /mnt/windex /dev/hda9 155mb swap all on a puny 6gb hdd.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted November 28, 2003 Report Share Posted November 28, 2003 # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 9.7G 3.4G 5.9G 37% / /dev/hda2 99M 6.3M 88M 7% /boot /dev/hda7 5.0G 97M 4.9G 2% /mnt/share /dev/hda5 3.9G 473M 3.2G 13% /home none 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda1 8.7G 5.6G 3.2G 65% /mnt/windows For a simple desktop machine I'm not convinced theres anything to be gained by extensive partitioning schemes - except the all important geek points I guess.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted November 28, 2003 Report Share Posted November 28, 2003 I go with tyme on Mandrake since the upgrade doesn't work the reasons to have seperate directories are limited. My present one is a bit complex becuase its multi-distro but like tyme I instead use a /share Things like tmp etc. are good to be on a seperate disk becuase then you can write to it while reading from the other but just using a seperate partition doesn't have that many advantages. Its neater, easier to backup on one side but wastes space ... and more complex to set-up. The default mandrake install options (if you let it take over the disk) are one way which is perfectly valid but for most home users a single partition might be easier. My router/web server/nfs/etc. which i reconfigured with RAID two nights ago has a /boot and / ONLY. No swap since a GIG of RAM is adequate for what I need! The /boot is seperate only because I had doubts about having it on a metadevice and played safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted November 28, 2003 Report Share Posted November 28, 2003 you me me? :huh: tyme's not in this thread :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted November 28, 2003 Report Share Posted November 28, 2003 ooops I was busy and didn't have tyme to check.... ^_^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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