Originally posted by: Corey0808
If you were to assign percentages of space to those partitions what would they be? That is also part of my problem too![]()
Originally posted by: TGS
I could agree with the need to seperate out the various mount points, if he had more than one disk. With a single disk partition just saves you if you really blow up your OS files. I mean REALLY blow them up. On a single disk, you really should just have the aforementioned /boot, /, /home, and swap. Sectioning more than that if you have a multi disk setup that requires certain programs to write to certain physical disks. Or you have IO contraints on certain applications. IE Databases and the such.
For the home user, I believe that anymore than "/boot(definately Read Only), /, /home, and swap" is more of less a waste of time. Especially on a single drive.
For a simple percentage determination on a single disk. Make 20-100MB for /boot, 1-2GB swap and split the rest 50-50 between / and /home. You figure most programs will log and be installed under / directories. While all the stuff you download (at least for me) should get plugged into /home. If you download a lot of stuff or archive, give /home a larger percentage.
Keep in mind you can always mount another disk under /home if you require the extra space.
With the availbility of various mount options like nosuid, I think partitioning out the disk is necessary and this only root and swap idea is ridiculous.
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
With the availbility of various mount options like nosuid, I think partitioning out the disk is necessary and this only root and swap idea is ridiculous.
Originally posted by: Corey0808
I really appreciate all the comments. I'm trying to take them all into consideration. I really don't know what each of the individual partitions do because I'm VERY new to linux.
This PC is mainly for home use. I will be browsing the web, writing documents, playing games like UT2k4, WoW, HL2, and CS:Source. There may be a possibility in my future of a web server but I'm not sure.
Please keep the comments coming!Thanks!
/sbin contains all the executable files (and simlinks to executable files) need to have a complete OS
/mnt (or in some systems /media) is a place to mount CDs, floppys, usb drives, etc.
Ditto.Originally posted by: Nothinman
I generally just use / /boot and /home. Usually I make / and/ home XFS and /boot ext2. If it's a workstation with more drives I usually have other mount points like /mnt/data.
Originally posted by: TGS
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
With the availbility of various mount options like nosuid, I think partitioning out the disk is necessary and this only root and swap idea is ridiculous.
Before it gets out of hand he's just asking for a starting point to basic partioning to get started on linux. Before we send him into manual mounts or editing fstab, vfstabs, or sd.conf on boxes he just needs a point to get started at.
I'm also not telling him just / and swap. I'm telling him /boot / /home and swap for basic partitioning. Just trying to make it easy for the guy to start with a nice easy layout.![]()
I ignore /boot, it's another ridiculous linuxism.
Originally posted by: Nothinman
I ignore /boot, it's another ridiculous linuxism.
It was required back when BIOSes and bootloaders couldn't read past the 1024 cylinder mark, now people just keep doing it because they're used to having it.
Originally posted by: Nothinman
You either got lucky and never had part of the kernel be moved past the 1024th cylinder mark or you had a really small drive. Hell FreeBSD has /boot too, it's just not normally it's own partition AFAIK. Personally I'd rather have the kernel in /boot, I like to keep my / clean.
And you want to talk about ridiculous? wtf is that /usr/home crap in FreeBSD? Who wants their home directories off of /usr?
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Well since leave /usr as part of /, /boot was a good idea.