Re: [linuxiran] Best Partitioning Scheme

[Arash Zeini]

On Tuesday 30 December 2003 21:15, ocean wrote:

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

I am not sure I get what you want? You didn't ask the question, or are you 
the same person with two different emails?

Arash

> --- "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
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> > by themselves."
> >
> >
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