Disk Partition Percentage

[Robert F. Stockdale IV]

I don't particularly agree. First the swap should be as close to the 
center of a disk to reduce head movement across the platters. It also 
speeds up access.  I keep /home, /opt  /boot, / and /usr separate. I 
like to mount nfs partitions from a server for /var, /usr/local/share, 
/usr/src and eventually I'll mount /home from the server as well. 
Percentages are tough thing to estimate as it really is dependent upon 
what the machine is used for.  Definitely keep /boot small useless you 
do a lot of kernel testing and configuring. If you tend to install 
programs in your home directory then give it lots of space. Better to 
use /opt , /usr/local or /usr/local/share for those. That is IMHO.
Bob

Cyber Source wrote:

> sorry, forgot the rest of the question. I would keep /boot to a 100MB 
> and / for the entire drive except for leaving 500MB for a swap 
> partition and put at the end of the drive, here is my fdisk -l.
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 36.7 GB, 36703934464 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4462 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2              14        4396    35206447+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda3            4397        4461      522112+  82  Linux swap
> [root at Office peter]#
>
> Any thoughts on the swap partition guys? I keep the swap always at 
> 500MB. The rule to double the RAM gets crazy when you have 512MB of 
> RAM and end up with a 1GB swap, this seems like such a waste. Am I 
> wrong in thinking that? Thoughts?......
>
> Frank Kumro wrote:
>
>> I am wanting to dump my current disk setup which consists of a swap
>> partition and a / partition. What other partitions would I need to
>> create? (i want home seperate and what else???). Also what percentages
>> should I use for disk space for each partition? I say percentages
>> because I have many machines which I would like to add these changes
>> too however they all vary in size. Thanks again guys!
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