Install of Ubuntu

[Russell Cook]

This works for me:
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdd1 reiserfs     15G  2.9G   13G  20% /
tmpfs        tmpfs    507M     0  507M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 reiserfs    197M   58M  139M  30% /boot
/dev/mapper/Linux-home
          reiserfs    187G  152G   35G  82% /home
/dev/hda5 reiserfs    2.0G   33M  2.0G   2% /tmp
/dev       unknown     15G  2.9G   13G  20% /.dev
none         tmpfs    5.0M  2.8M  2.3M  56% /dev

Basically, I have a separate /tmp, /home and /boot (and swap but that's hidden). The rest are under / which saves me wasting space. There is a good argument for /usr/local being a separate partition so apps you install manually (i.e. not from the repository) won't get easily blown away if you need to reinstall.

In fact that's the main reason for having /home separate as well. You can reinstall or even run 2 versions of Ubuntu i.e. a main Ubuntu and a dev Ubuntu from different partitions but share /tmp, /boot and /home, (and /usr/local if you wish).

Kind Regards Russ
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>> amigian wrote:
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>>> Was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on if it is better (or 
>>> doesn't matter) that Ubuntu is installed on the same HD as windoze 
>>> or on a second HD. Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> Doesn't really matter.
>>
>> If your hard drives are on separate cables (or if they're SCSI), then
>> you might want to split the hard drive accesses across the two drives.
>> For example, you might want to put /, /usr and swap on one drive, and
>> /var and /home on the other. (This depends on how you'd use the various
>> partitions).
>>
>> The idea is that if one disk is receiving e-mail, then the computer can
>> still continue loading Evolution from the other disk without
>> interruptions.
>>
>> Of course, if either disk goes down you're going to have problems...
>>
>> If you're really keen on performance, you might want to think about the
>> sort of data you're storing and where would be most efficient to put it.
>> Generally, if you want fast long reads of sequential data, the start of
>> the disk is fastest.  On the other hand, if you want fast access to
>> small files or small parts of files, the middle of the disk is fastest.
>>
>> Or you could just say that everything's fast enough and put Ubuntu where
>> you please...
>>
>> James.
>
> Thanks for the info. As a newbie this is something i want to learn 
> more about - /, /usr, /var and /home. What each is used for, 
> sizes(MB), etc.
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