[nflug] RE: Partitions sizes

[Ron Maggio]

Hi, Frank
  Thanks for your advice.
   
  Ron Maggio:)

pirrone <pirrone at localnet.com> wrote:
  Dave Andruczyk wrote:

>--- Ron Maggio 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
> 
>
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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