[H-GEN] partition advice

[Robert Brockway]

On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Ben Carlyle wrote:

> One suggestion I would like to make to alter this scheme is to increase
> the size of your root partition.  I have a 16 meg root partition at home
> on fuzzy%, and run into constant problems when upgrading my debian
> distribution.

I'd be interested to see your layout actually, as my system is debian
also, and I have never run into problems with / being too small.
 
> Debian likes to unpack files in the target directory before performing
> the actual upgrade (a sensible approach), thus despite 16 meg being
> just enough room for /etc, /lib, /sbin, and other vital components,
> it is not enough to unpack new versions as well. I therefore suggest
> reserving about twice as much space as you expect to use on the root
> partition.

I always do periodic upgrades, so maybe this is why I have never run into
a problem.  Interesting.
 
> I suspect any distribution that relies heavily on /etc and /lib will
> have similar problems.  Personally I would prefer many of these files
> to be shipped to /usr/etc and /usr/lib, or some other handy location
> such as rob's /opt.
> 
> For my personal machines I find that /usr is the most important for
> program installs, then /home for my megs of personal data and fiddling
> space.  I make /var reasonably big (you -don't- want to have a full /var),
> and basically give the rest to swap and /tmp.

I agree here :)  A full /var sucks much more than a full /usr :)
 
> On a side-note, I'm sorely tempted to drop back to one
> or two partitions.  I'm tired of running out of space in /home
> without any simple way of altering my partition configuration
> available to me.

On any system with disk space limitations, I tend to go for 1 FS,but where
possible I will go for a scheme like the one I posted.
Cheers,
	-Robert
	
--Robert Brockway B.Sc.  Email: robert at blake.humbug.org.au
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