Subject: Re: Slackware Partition Setup
From: Arthur Corliss (arthur@corlissfamily.org)
Date: Tue Oct 22 2002 - 15:55:43 AKDT
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, James Raynor wrote:
>
> I am installing Slackware on a PC with a 6gb hdd. The set up does not
> hold your hand like Red Hat and actually wants me to partition the HDD
> myself, the nerve. Anyway, what partition schemes do you guys/gals
> recommend? Thanks in advance.
I would set yours up as so:
/ 500MB
/usr 2000MB
/var 500MB
/tmp 500MB
/home (remaining)
Keep in mind the following philosophical principles:
o The root partition should be as small as possible, but with
everything you need on it to bring the system up to single
user mode, so you can do a full restore of everything else,
if needed.
o The root partition should be as static as possible (i.e.,
no changing data). Less writes means less probability of
file system corruption (still important, even with journaling
fs'es).
o The tmp partition should always be separate to make sure
errant processes don't run your fs out of disk space for
critical processes. You can hang an entire box if syslogd
runs out of space for its logs, for instance (or, at least,
it was that way in the past). So, keep var separate from tmp.
o The var partition changes a *lot*, so keep it isolated from
the more stable fs'es.
o The users are the most unpredictable thing to manage, so keep
their space separate from everything else. This also makes
system upgrades easier, since you won't have to roll their
data off of tape the next you rebuild the system by wiping the
previous system fs'es.
Just my $.02, so discard at will. :-)
--Arthur Corliss
Bolverk's Lair -- http://arthur.corlissfamily.org/
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