[nflug] RE: Partitions sizes

[pirrone]

Dave Andruczyk wrote:

>--- 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:)
>>    
>>
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>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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>
Good advice Dave, but I'd also suggest setting /usr/local on its own 
partition (at least for my usage pattern where RPMs typically install in 
/usr but I configure applications I compile to install in /usr/local) 
and same for /opt if you use it that way.  Still LVM is outstanding and 
takes most of the guesswork about setting the sizes for partitions you 
choose.

Frank
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