Disk Layout/Partitioning Practices

[John Wendel]

On Wednesday 28 January 2004 07:01 am, Ron Herardian wrote:

> Hello,
>
> When installing everything and allowing for future updates and
> packages I am using the following disk layout:
>
> 	Mount Point	Size
> 	/boot		100MB
> 	/		500MB
> 	/usr		4GB
> 	/var		2GB
> 	swap		2x physical RAM, e.g., 1GB
> 	/home		TBD, e.g., 1GB per user
>         /opt		TBD/catchall [3rd party servers will be installed
> here]
>
> I want to have enough space on required partitions but not waste
> space on infrequently modified filesystems where add-on packages
> will probably not go.
>
> I'd like to get an idea what other folks are doing in terms of disk
> layouts. What are the best practices?
>
> Ron


4GB /usr might be a little tight, depending on what you like to 
install. I'm sitting on a 5GB /usr right now, but I have a lot of 
stuff in /usr/local and I don't use /opt.

Regards,

John