Re: [TCLUG:1804] Reinstalling -- How should I partition?

["Robert A. Hayden" <rhayden@mr.net>]

On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Michael Hicks wrote:

> Well, since my partition map has now reached a way too convoluted stage,
> I thought I'd backup my home directory and anything else important, and
> reinstall my system..  I was looking for a good layout of how to do
> this..
> 
> Right now, /dev/hda is a 1.2 GB drive, and /dev/hdb is about 2 GB..  I
> was thinking of putting /home and /usr/src into ~500 MB partitions on
> hda, then possibly add a ~100 MB swap.  However, I don't really know how
> I should set up hdb..  

/dev/hda1 - 128MB Swap
/dev/hda2 - /
/dev/hdb1 - /home

That will give you a 1.1GB root paritition, including your /usr/src.  A
128MB swap (which is the maximum in a swap file, you also want swap in the
fastest partition, which is "1").  Then you'd have 2GB for user files in
/home.

This is the configuration for Geek.NET, which has 3 hard drive (a 1.5GB, a
4GB and another 1.5GB).  Each hard drive also has a 128MB swap partition:

Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda2            1490088  345177  1067900     24%   /
/dev/hdc2            3862911 1938015  1718343     53%   /home
/dev/hdb2            1433794   22084  1337622      2%   /var/spool/mail

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This is my own opinion, but don't create an artifical partition unless you
have a reason.  It makes it easier to add a disk later.
 
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