Re: [linuxiran] Best Partitioning Scheme

[Arash Zeini]

On Wednesday 31 December 2003 04:20, Aryan Ameri wrote:

> 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.

Maybe I got confused. Sorry. I thought this Sajjadi was the OP :(

> 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/)
> > > > GnuPG Key ID: 0xD7AD0E13
> > > > "Bugs that go away by themselves tend to come back
> > > > by themselves."
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > bna-linuxiran mailing list
> > > > address@hidden
> > >
> > > http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bna-linuxiran
> > >
> > >
> > > __________________________________
> > > Do you Yahoo!?
> > > New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing.
> > > http://photos.yahoo.com/
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > bna-linuxiran mailing list
> > > address@hidden
> > > http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bna-linuxiran

-- 
The FarsiKDE Project
www.farsikde.org