[TriLUG] Assistance with Partition Sizes on New RH 9 Installation

[Jeremy Portzer]

I highly recommend what Chris says, with the important addition of /home
as a separate partition.  Perhaps this:
/boot 100 MB
/swap 300 MB   (often you'd make this equivalent to your physical RAM,
though make it larger if you have less than 256 MB RAM)
/	4-6 GB	(or whatever size you think reflects the number of programs
you'll be installing
/home   all the rest

This way, you can easily reformat and wipe the operating system, without
affecting your data that's in /home.  That comes in VERY handy later
on.  Yet the above scheme is not nearly as difficult as the server-based
schemes that have separate partitions for /tmp, /var, /usr, etc.

--Jeremy

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:39, Chris Bullock wrote:
> Unless this machine is dedicated for something specific ie FTP/web I usually 
> go with a VERY basic partition scheme.
> /boot   50MB
> /swap 250 -500 MB
> / for everything else, this way your systems delegates to the needed 
> directories.  I know there are reasons for partitioning so in depth, but for 
> my use this schema works great.
> --cgb
> 
> 
> 
> On Monday 25 August 2003 22:15, Scot Huntsberry wrote:
> > I am going to reinstall RH 9 tomorrow because my system has gotten so
> > slow that it is ridiculous.  I was wondering if I could get some
> > suggestions oh how to best partition a 50gb hard drive to maximize the
> > efficiency of the system.  I would really appreciate any suggestions the
> > group could provide.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Scot
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