SCSI Drives

Dave Andruczyk djandruczyk at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 11 18:16:29 EST 2004


--- TheCactusKid Cactus <thecactuskid45 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi y'all
> Well after reading through a little information, I think I got a plan
> here. Now tell me if I'm wrong or not. Here it goes.
>  
> sda 500mb will go /swap (This is a small drive)
>  
> sdb0 50mb /boot 
> sdb1 200mb /root 
> sdb2 3750mb /usr 
>  
> sdc0 2000mb /tmp 
> sdc1 2000mb /usrlocal
>  
> sdd0 4000mb /home
>  
> sde0 2000mb /var
> sde1 2000mb /opt
>  
> Am I on the right track?

Pretty close:
sdc1 should be /usr/local, not /usrlocal
sdb1 200mb /root should be instead: sdb1 200mb /
/root is "root's" home directory
/ is considered to the "root" of the filesystem (highest point)  hence
many people confuse /root with /

Usually 2GB for /tmp is a little much,  but extra never hurts. (I
personally use about 400MB for tmp on my system.)

If you have lots of space left over I also tend to create  a "scratch"
parition which is useful for benchmarking, storing ISO's, using as a
staging area for making CD/DVD's or for a temp storage place if I want
to re-arrange my filesystems.

I'd also put swap on the FASTEST drive you have,  as if your system
gets low on ram and starts swapping to a slow disk, performance suffers
even more so.


=====
Dave J. Andruczyk

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