Re: [linuxiran] Best Partitioning Scheme

[ocean]

Arash will you please resend your reply to my
partitioning scheme email? Because for some odd reason
I haven't got it!



--- "A. Sajjad Zaidi" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 01:48:02PM -0800, Arash
> Zeini wrote:
> > 
> > On times I used to have three different distros on
> one laptop, but now I 
> > have two and use a scheme like this:
> 
> One thing that I actually tested for partitioning
> was the performance of
> different areas of the disk. Partitions at the
> beginning had data
> transfer rates upto 2x those at the end. Following
> this, it makes sense
> to put swap and often used data at the beginning.
> 
> > /boot: 32 MB
> 
> That might be a bit less if you plan on playing
> around with kernels. I
> usually give /boot about 70MB.
> 
> > /: 5 GB
> 
> I rarely give / more than 3-400MB. The reason is
> that if something goes
> wrong and starts filling up your disk space, / is
> not the place you want
> inaccessable.
> 
> Here is what I would usually do with a 40GB disk on
> a desktop system with
> 256MB RAM and 2 distros:
> 
> /boot:        70MB
> /boot:        70MB (2nd distro)
> <swap>: 1GB (shared)
> /:    400MB
> /:    400MB (2nd distro)
> /tmp: 512MB
> /tmp: 512MB (2nd distro)
> /var: 1GB
> /var: 1GB (2nd distro)
> /usr: 7GB (mounted readonly)
> /usr: 7GB (2nd distro) (mounted readonly)
> /home:        10GB
> /home:        10GB (2nd distro)
> 
> Looks a bit cluttered, but there are quite a lot of
> advantages of
> separating the partitions. Some, like /var and /tmp
> change very often
> and have a higher chance of file system corruption.
> And certain
> exploits, such as those for hard-links, don't work
> across partitions.
> 
> By separating them, you can minimize issues like
> this, though you do end
> up wasting some space.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> -- 
> A. Sajjad Zaidi
> Sr.System Administrator
> iinix Solutions (http://www.iinix.com/)
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> "Bugs that go away by themselves tend to come back
> by themselves."
> 
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