[nflug] RE: Partitions sizes

[Ron Maggio]

Hi, Dave
  Thanks for all your advice.
   
  So your going to add HDD's later on down the road, and from what your saying is that LVM will let you add them on and divide them up on the fly. So by doing so you can add partitions, and from what I've read about using LVM one can move (resizing partitions) them around without destroying data. So if I'm correct one can do partition extensions, similar to NT's volume striping to increase partition space? Linux has come a long way!
   
  Thanks, Ron Maggio:)

Dave Andruczyk <djandruczyk at yahoo.com> wrote:
  

--- Ron Maggio wrote:

> Hi, all
> I know that this is a simple question and most of you are way past this in
> your Linux endeavors, but I'm in the process of getting ready to install
> Fedora Core 4 on my P4 system. (rhyme? no pun intended) I have not upgraded
> (two more HDD's and a DVD-RW) the hardware yet, but I thought I'd try it out
> on this system. I have a 120 gig HDD and would like to get some ideas on the
> minimum partition sizes for an install. I went to Red Hat's web site and read
> the install manual, but I found nothing listed about in relation to partition
> sizes. ie: boot, root and so on. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 
> 
> Thanks, Ron:)

well if I remeber FC4 uses LVM which allows partition resizing, growing, etc.. 
I typially setup /boot as at least 50-100 megs. I tend to split things up
probbaly more than needed. (enterprise experience I guess). though I think
that having home on it's own partition is a must, as it allows you to upgrade
completely and leave your home dirs alone. So for a bare minimum use /boot as
50-100megs, / as 3-10 gigs and 5-20gigs for /home. If I have extra data needs
I create a partition for it as needed.

see below for my (convoluted) FS layout.
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 247903 185777 49327 80% /
udev 1557388 304 1557084 1% /dev
/dev/sda5 409516 285880 123636 70% /var
/dev/sda6 396656 192506 183671 52% /tmp
/dev/sda7 4626352 1691000 2888352 37% /scratch
/dev/sda8 11171744 3395944 7662300 31% /opt
/dev/sdb1 11719252 9316832 2402420 80% /usr
/dev/sdb3 5471004 4551356 864068 85% /scratch3
/dev/sdd1 5795400 5594308 142216 98% /home
/dev/sdd3 11303856 6683396 4505620 60% /media/audio
/dev/sdc1 17775148 14558508 3216640 82% /other
/dev/sde1 156278784 129682884 26595900 83% /mnt/disk
none 1557388 0 1557388 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3 148742 14925 126137 11% /boot

As soon as I get some extra dough, I'll be upping to a pair of samsung 250GB
drives on SCSI to IDE bridges and using a more sane LVM approach.



Dave J. Andruczyk



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