Partition Suggestions
Vram
lamsokvr at xprt.net
Fri Jan 14 00:10:18 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 22:04 +0200, Simon Taplin wrote:
> I've just invested in a 40GB HDD specifically for running my Ubuntu side
> of the world. The HDD will be running as a secondary master. I am
> looking for some suggestions on how to partition on the drive
>
> So far I have a 509MB swap Partition (Why can't I make this bigger?)
> A 2GB backup partition for keeping a copy the apt cache and any
> downloads I have
> A 5GB home partition (probebly to big but I am open to suggestions)
> What other directories is it a good idea to run as seperate partitions
> and what sizes? This would be mainly for a desktop machine.
>
There is no right answer here....
Just flame wars...
Here goes...
Partitions you need...
/boot 50 Meg
/ 600 Meg
/usr 3G
/usr/local 2G
/var 1G
/opt 1G
/tmp 1G
/home 10G
/image <for those pics> 20G/?
/mp3 20G/?
swap What ever!!!
Just my $0.02
HTH
Vram
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