[nflug] RE: Partitions sizes

[Dave Andruczyk]

--- Ron Maggio <ronmaggio2005 at yahoo.com> 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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