partitions

[Robert Meyer]

Generically, you want /home to be on a separate filesystem.  A simple layout
would be something like:

hda1   - /     9.5 gig
hda2   - swap  500 meg
hdb1   - /home 30 gig

This consolidates your free space into fewer but larger chunks, so you don't
have to play around with partitions if you find that you need more room
someplace.  It also makes your home filesystem the largest so you have room for
all of those mp3s :-).

If you want to make something that looks more like a server, you might try
putting the 30 G drive first and then doing something like:

hda1    -  /boot        90 meg or so
hda2    -  /            5 gig
hda3    -  swap         512 meg
hda4    -  /var         5 gig
hda5    -  /opt         10 gig
hda6    -  /usr/local   whatever's left of the drive
hdb1    -  /home        whole drive

This makes room for installed programs in /opt and /usr/local, a separate
filesystem for logs, print spool files and email in /var and a separate spindle
for the home directories.

There are a zillion ways to partition drives depending on what you intend to do
with the system.

As far as dual boot, if you already have a Windoze box running, what's the
sense of having another?  If you set up one with RH9, and leave the other with
M$, then you can set up samba shares on the RH9 box to access files across if
you need the disk space.

As far as backups are concerned, you want to be able to backup the stuff that
is valuable and cannot be reconstructed easily (your data).  Unless you're
building a server box, you can typically reinstall faster than you can restore
backups for the OS.

The location of swap space is only meaningful if you really bang on the
swapper/pager a lot.  That would again typically be a large server kind of
thing.

Your milage may vary...

Cheers!

Bob
--- 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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