minimum "/" partition size

[Michael T. Richter]

On Thu, 2007-21-06 at 19:20 -0500, Default User wrote:

> Any advice? 


Make separate partitions for /, /boot, /home, /usr and possibly
even /usr/local depending on how you think your system will
expand.  /boot is where the kernel images, etc. will reside.  Look at
the kernels you've got now and multiply their sizes by the number of
kernels you expect to keep active at any given point to get a rough idea
of how much space to reserve for it.  / is, if memory serves, pretty
static.  You get /bin, /sbin, etc. in there, but most packages install
into /usr/bin and /usr/sbin.  I suspect a reasonably small / is fine.
You'll want to put your big partitions on /usr and /home.  (On my system
I build a lot of software that only I want running, so /home has a lot
of space requirements.  YMMV.)

Oh, and put /boot in the first cylinders of your disk if you've got an
older BIOS.

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