Re: [TCLUG:1804] Reinstalling -- How should I partition?

[Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu>]

Is there any reason not to just have one large partition if you have one
hard drive? I have a 6.4 gig hd and I'm only using it as a workstation, so
why shouldn't I have

/hda1  /   6.3gig
/hda5  swap 100meg (or 64 or whatever)

(I actually don't have it partitioned like this, but I have no idea why I
did do multi-partitions)


Ben Luey
lueyb@carleton.edu
ICQ: 19144397

On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Robert A. Hayden wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Michael Hicks wrote:
> 
> > Well, since my partition map has now reached a way too convoluted stage,
> > I thought I'd backup my home directory and anything else important, and
> > reinstall my system..  I was looking for a good layout of how to do
> > this..
> > 
> > Right now, /dev/hda is a 1.2 GB drive, and /dev/hdb is about 2 GB..  I
> > was thinking of putting /home and /usr/src into ~500 MB partitions on
> > hda, then possibly add a ~100 MB swap.  However, I don't really know how
> > I should set up hdb..  
> 
> /dev/hda1 - 128MB Swap
> /dev/hda2 - /
> /dev/hdb1 - /home
> 
> That will give you a 1.1GB root paritition, including your /usr/src.  A
> 128MB swap (which is the maximum in a swap file, you also want swap in the
> fastest partition, which is "1").  Then you'd have 2GB for user files in
> /home.
> 
> This is the configuration for Geek.NET, which has 3 hard drive (a 1.5GB, a
> 4GB and another 1.5GB).  Each hard drive also has a 128MB swap partition:
> 
> Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/hda2            1490088  345177  1067900     24%   /
> /dev/hdc2            3862911 1938015  1718343     53%   /home
> /dev/hdb2            1433794   22084  1337622      2%   /var/spool/mail
> 
> ---
> 
> This is my own opinion, but don't create an artifical partition unless you
> have a reason.  It makes it easier to add a disk later.
>  
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