Re: [linuxiran] Best Partitioning Scheme

[Aryan Ameri]

On Wednesday 31 December 2003 10:05, Arash Zeini wrote:
> 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?


well he is the OP. And AFAICS he is using only one email address. 

Anyway, Farid, my suggestion is to take a look at the archive. All the 
messages are there, so you can read them again.

CHeers
> 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
> > > iinix Solutions (http://www.iinix.com/)
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> > > by themselves."
> > >
> > >
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Aryan Ameri