partitions

[Richard Hubbard]

Basically, it depends :-)
For home use, if you aren't planning to do some really
heavy data work, you can probably mount everything but
your swap partition under /.  

The only problem with this is if you run out of room
on your hd.  You could have serious issues regarding
your computer working (same thing happens with all
os's.  When they run out of room for basic things on
the hd, they die.

To avoid this, you might follow this strategy:
/boot looks ok (you may be able to get away with less,
boot is used for holding the kernel.
keep / rather small.  Maybe 500mb - 1gb.  Here is the
real trick.  Mount the directories that can tend to
get huge on their own partition.  These directories
include /usr (usually big programs get put there.
/opt, when you install programs from outside vendors,
they usually like to go there. /home, because of all
the user files that may be stored in your home
directories, and /var, because this seems to be a
catch all ('were are we puttin' this 600G log file,
Vern? 'Jus put it in the /var directory, Jake')

Of course, the automatic partitioning schemes that Red
Hat and Mandrake have come up with aren't too bad. You
might want to give those a shot, just to see what they
make.

--- JB <mesimpleton at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm currently on a win98 box but I am setting up a
> second computer with RH9. I had it set up as dual
> boot
> win98/RH9 and it was OK except that it had Microsoft
> cooties. I decided I would rather have a RH9 only
> box,
> and back to back network it to my win 98 box.
> I'm wondering if there is any advantage to dual
> booting if I have a win98 computer and a RH9
> computer
> in a network? (dual computers vs dual boot)
> The RH9 box, I'm setting up has 2 HD's, a 10 gig and
> a
> 30 gig.
> My partitions are set as follows.
> hda1 is set as (/boot) with 94 M.
> hda2 is set as a storage area (/gig8) with 8+ G.
> hda3 is set as a 1.5 G (swap).
> hdb1 is (/) with 30 G.
> I am wondering if this is a good partitioning
> strategy?
> I put the swap on the first drive so it could be
> accessed while the / drive was being accessed. I'm
> more or less wondering if I should be making more
> mount points. I read it is easier to backup with
> dump
> if there are separate partitions such as /usr, /home
> and the like. I just completed the install on that
> computer so a re-do wouldn't be a problem. Any
> opinions/suggestions/tips would be appreciated.
> 


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