<DIV>Hi, Frank</DIV> <DIV>Thanks for your advice.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Ron Maggio:)<BR><BR><B><I>pirrone <pirrone@localnet.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Dave Andruczyk wrote:<BR><BR>>--- Ron Maggio <RONMAGGIO2005@YAHOO.COM>wrote:<BR>><BR>> <BR>><BR>>>Hi, all<BR>>> I know that this is a simple question and most of you are way past this in<BR>>>your Linux endeavors, but I'm in the process of getting ready to install<BR>>>Fedora Core 4 on my P4 system. (rhyme? no pun intended) I have not upgraded<BR>>>(two more HDD's and a DVD-RW) the hardware yet, but I thought I'd try it out<BR>>>on this system. I have a 120 gig HDD and would like to get some ideas on the<BR>>>minimum partition sizes for an install. I went to Red Hat's web site and read<BR>>>the install manual, but I found nothing listed about in relation
to
partition<BR>>>sizes. ie: boot, root and so on. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated. <BR>>> <BR>>> Thanks, Ron:)<BR>>> <BR>>><BR>><BR>>well if I remeber FC4 uses LVM which allows partition resizing, growing, etc.. <BR>>I typially setup /boot as at least 50-100 megs. I tend to split things up<BR>>probbaly more than needed. (enterprise experience I guess). though I think<BR>>that having home on it's own partition is a must, as it allows you to upgrade<BR>>completely and leave your home dirs alone. So for a bare minimum use /boot as<BR>>50-100megs, / as 3-10 gigs and 5-20gigs for /home. If I have extra data needs<BR>>I create a partition for it as needed.<BR>><BR>>see below for my (convoluted) FS layout.<BR>>Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on<BR>>/dev/sda1 247903 185777 49327 80% /<BR>>udev 1557388 304 1557084 1% /dev<BR>>/dev/sda5 409516 285880 123636 70% /var<BR>>/dev/sda6 396656
192506
183671 52% /tmp<BR>>/dev/sda7 4626352 1691000 2888352 37% /scratch<BR>>/dev/sda8 11171744 3395944 7662300 31% /opt<BR>>/dev/sdb1 11719252 9316832 2402420 80% /usr<BR>>/dev/sdb3 5471004 4551356 864068 85% /scratch3<BR>>/dev/sdd1 5795400 5594308 142216 98% /home<BR>>/dev/sdd3 11303856 6683396 4505620 60% /media/audio<BR>>/dev/sdc1 17775148 14558508 3216640 82% /other<BR>>/dev/sde1 156278784 129682884 26595900 83% /mnt/disk<BR>>none 1557388 0 1557388 0% /dev/shm<BR>>/dev/sda3 148742 14925 126137 11% /boot<BR>><BR>>As soon as I get some extra dough, I'll be upping to a pair of samsung 250GB<BR>>drives on SCSI to IDE bridges and using a more sane LVM approach.<BR>><BR>>Dave J. Andruczyk<BR>> <BR>><BR>Good advice Dave, but I'd also suggest setting /usr/local on its own <BR>partition (at least for my usage pattern where RPMs typically install in <BR>/usr but I configure applications I compile to install in /usr/local) <BR>and same
for /opt
if you use it that way. Still LVM is outstanding and <BR>takes most of the guesswork about setting the sizes for partitions you <BR>choose.<BR><BR>Frank<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>nflug mailing list<BR>nflug@nflug.org<BR>http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug<BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><BR></DIV><p>
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