[Sheflug] Re: Partitioning - was 486DXs and P75s.

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Ian Wright wrote:
> 
> Thanks Baz,
> 
> I'll have a look at the RAID howto, it's not something I thought about
> before. You're right that I did really want to spread one partition across a
> couple of disks. I don't know whether there may be another way around it by
> linking things or something but, when you install a program using a RedHat
> style .rpm, it seems to put everything on the /usr partition. Presumably if
> you subsequently move any of this stuff about to other partitions it will
> cock things up so, if you want to run a lot of different programs like I do
> when I'm trying to sort out what does what, the /usr partition soon gets
> full up.

 I'd give RAID a wide berth for the moment and just mount different
directories on different disks.

/usr is where most program files go, so expect to use your largest disk
for it (/home can also get *v e r y* big..)

Here's how I've got my system:

[baz@flux baz]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7             9.9G  5.1G  4.3G  55% /
/dev/hda5             2.0G  276M  1.6G  15% /backup
/dev/hda1              23M  5.7M   15M  27% /boot
/dev/hdb2             8.9G  4.8G  3.7G  56% /usr
none                  8.0G   87M  7.9G   2% /dev/shm
/dev/sda4              96M   31M   64M  33% /mnt/fzip

There is also a 500Mb swap partition on each HDD.

At one point I had /, /boot, /usr, /usr/local/, and /home all on
different partitions across two disks...nightmare.

Most of /usr is my mp3 collection (2.8Gb) and most of / is all the crap
in /home/baz :-)

You should be OK with having /usr on one disk, don't try and span disks
with it. If you want, you could mount the different /usr/subdirectories
on different disks - /usr/local etc...

 I learnt by lots of posts to ShefLUG and several weekends formatting
disks and starting from scratch :-)

Baz.

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