Re: [Sheflug] Partitioning.

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> 
>  I have 23.6Gb as one 13.6Gb Maxtor on one (EIDE) controller, and a 10Gb Maxtor
> on the other controller with my DVD.
> 
>  I have ~3Gb of mp3s, currently stored in /usr/local/music - should I move
> these?

One idea - I don't have my mp3's in a single partition - currently I've got 
about 6 or 7 partitions dedicated to mp3's...why so many? Each partition is
650MB in size...ie, 1 CD's worth. It makes it very swish and easy to write 
things out to CD when you know everything is under a single partition. :)

Of course, if you have no CD writer, then this is a moot idea :) Currently I 
have about 15GB unassigned (I've a total of roughly 30GB split between a 3.2, 
6.4, and a 20GB drive) for future expansion (should I need it).

>  I have a stack of rpms and tars, incase I need to reinstall anything. Currently
> dumped them all in /home/baz/rpm and /home/baz/tar - maybe move to /root?
>  I`ve also got several 100Mb of my photos as TIFFs and JPEGS.


I've created a hierachy under /usr/local, called archive ... so I've got:
	/usr/local/archive/win		For the odd windows bit
	/usr/local/archive/linux	Big linux hiearchy
	/usr/local/archive/linux/WindowMaker	Windowmaker stuff
	.
	.
	.
I throw all tarballs (plus the occasional RPM - I rarely use them...prefer 
building from source where available) into /usr/local/archive/linux, or some 
directory under there (kernel/, Wine/, WindowMaker/, xmms/ ...). This 
hiearchy just lives on the /usr/local partition.

I carry out software package builds in /var/Build ... meaning a vageuly large 
(but not too big) var partition, as once its installed and I know its 
working, the source tree for the package can be blown away.

>  
>  I want two swap spaces, totalling 400Mb or more (needed for Oracle), shared
> equally between the drives.
> 

For speed, put them at the beginning of the disks. Whichever drive is the 
faster is also the one you may want to put more swap on (think: fast swap, 
less latency when it comes to swapping to disk).

>  I`d like to have /, /boot, /usr and /home partitions separate as a minimium.
> 
>  How should I set all this up?
> 

Up to you :) I can never get it right...I've a 2GB root, 630MB /home, and a 
2GB /usr/local. At the time I threw /usr on the root partition, and I'm 
wondering if that really was a good idea. :) That's the base setup - 
4.6GB...a tad less than the total disk space. I've got temporary storge under 
/mnt, and a whole host or partiions under /home/chris/etc/music/mp3 (the 
650MB ones). And still have space to spare. 3GB of disk has also gone to 
Win95 (on a 2GB partition) and OpenBSD 2.6 (on a 1GB partition).

So the best thing to do is (my advice...so take with pinch of salt if you 
want :) :
	- Evaluate what you've got at the mo, and allow for reasonable
		expansion
	- Decide on how you want to split the swap
	- *don't* assign all the disk space...unless you really know where
		you want to put it. This allows you to expand and move
		partitions as and when there is demand.

Chris...


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