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

["Joseph A. Heil" <heilja@dbsource.com>]

Quoting 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

  Backups and fscks.  Have you ever backed by devices?  6.3 gig takes
  a hell of along time.  Have you ever had linux crash( we all know it 
  does crash, but if it did :) ), it most like will do a fsck on all
  filesystem.  Boy, will that take a long time.  What about flexibility?
  Ok. lets say you do backup that 6.3 gig partition, and now you disk
  goes bad.  You replace the disk, but you put in a 2 gig'er.  Your
  tape of the 6.3 gig partition could have more that 2 gig on it?  How
  do you restore all that information?  Planning is a large part of 
  running any unix system.  Poor decisions in the beginning can lead to
  major headaches in the end.  IMHO, a 6.3 gig partition for / is just plain 
  stupid.
> 
> /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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