[LUNI] Look for some partitioning recommendations

[sean-lynch at sean-lynch.com]

I like the /home in /var/data idea!

very practical.


On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:16:38 -0500
  "Samir Faci" <sfaci at cs.uic.edu> wrote:
> Just one I've been using, not necesserly the best one.
> 
> /boot  32M... maybe more if you want a lot of kernels
> /        32GB
> /var/   everything else
> /tmp   shm
> /var/tmp  shm  (I've seen this put in as shm, though if 
>you're not in
> gentoo, I don't think it's used too much)
> none      swap.
> 
> In my case I keep /home in /var/data   so I would do a 
>symlink  /home to
> /var/data/home   and vmware images would go under /var 
>as well... most of
> the size intensive data seems to be in /var except for 
>/usr/local, you can
> increase that size if you'd like.
> 
> This layout works great for me, under gentoo, just my 2 
>cents.
> 
> --
> Samir
> 
> On 10/29/07, Michael Salsman <msalsman at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have just purchased a 120 GB drive for my Dell D610, 
>>and I am trying
>> to figure out the best way to partition the drive, so 
>>that my user data
>> is preserved as I dink around with different distros.
>>
>> Generally the types of things that I want to preserve 
>>are:
>>
>> VMWare images
>> typical personal stuff ...  music, photos, videos
>> 3rd party product installs that do not require any 
>>particular paths
>> (typically non-RPM).
>>
>> Which partitions/directories tend to be overwritten by 
>>different
>> distros, and what could I hope to keep?  I would expect 
>>that /opt and
>> /home would be okay, with the thought of mounting them 
>>to the / partition.
>>
>> I would want to keep the main distro 
>>partition/directories around 10 GB,
>> and then throw the rest to swap and my other stuff.
>>
>> Any and all thoughts greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Mike
>>
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