Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 1999 14:55:08 -0400 | From | "Jim Nance" <> | Subject | Re: Partition Sizing |
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On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 01:10:19PM -0500, The Doctor What wrote:
> I'm curious about this as well. What advantages are there to multiple > partitions, besides faster fsck times? How do I know what size to make > them? How should I break the partitions up? What do I do if I run out of > space in one?
There are several arguments for having multiple partitions. I think most of them have become irrelivant as disks have gotten faster and cheaper. The one that still makes sense is to have /home on its own partition. This allows you to do something like install Caldera and Red Hat on 1 machine, and share /home between them. On my machine I make /usr/local its own partition and I symlink /home -> usr/local/home. I like this arangement because I can reformat and reinstall a distribution and not have to worry about my personal files.
Another thing I just remembered is that some BIOSes will not boot a kernel if its more than 1G from the beginning of the disk. If you have a machine like this you need to have a partition on the drive suitable for booting.
Picking the size of the partitions is educated guesswork. Because I grew up in the days when everyone had a seperate /usr partition, I usually do it like this:
/dev/hda1 -> 64M / (I keep kernel images here for BIOS) /dev/hda2 -> 64M swap /dev/hda3 -> 512M /usr /dev/hda4 -> /usr/local (with /home symlinked here)
But there are certainly a lot of other common ways to do it.
Jim
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