Installation Issue

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2004-09-15 17:52, James Wilkinson whipped out a trusty #2 
pencil and scribbled:

>I recommended, for a 20 GB nominal drive:
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>>I'd consider 12 GB for /home, and the rest for swap, /boot, and /.
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>Fritz Whittington wrote:
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>>1. It's hard for me to understand 12 GB for /home -- this sounds like a 
>>personal-use machine.
>>2. On my FC2, /usr/share is about 3 GB.  All the rest of /usr is about 3 
>>GB. 
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>Do you think 12 GB is too much or too little? I agree with the likely
>usage, and your figures for /usr sound about right. Allow 1 GB for the
>rest of the system, and 1 GB for such things as /boot, swap, and various
>formatting overheads, and you're left with 12 GB.
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>The original poster will probably want that for user data: it should
>therefore be /home.
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>James.
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I see we have different outlooks :-)  To me, in a "personal" computer 
like this, /home/fritz mostly has .bashrc, .mozilla, etc. and maybe a 
few other files like letters, notes.  But in total pretty small.  If I 
want to load up a 100 MB database of whatsis, then I tend to put it in 
/var/whatsis, or maybe /var/personal or /var/business, or something like 
that.  Also, a lot of things you might want to install might insist on 
going into /usr/share/yaddayadda, but almost never into ~.

Partly this is for ease of backup.  I want to keep ~ small enough to 
backup often.  That 100 MB reference database can probably be 
re-downloaded. 

Now, regardless of all the above, I just think unless you are setting up 
a big multi-user or server with tons of disk space to burn, and want to 
distribute certain filesystems over certain drives/partitions to speed 
up inode operations under heavy loads, etc.  then you should keep all of 
/ in one big pot (again, excepting /boot and swap), because you never 
really know in advance which of /usr, /usr/share, /var, /tmp or whatever 
is going to need more space as you use the system over time. 

-- 
Fritz Whittington
Dependence on computers is apparently making a significant fraction of the population incurably stupid.  (Fritz Whittington, Risks Digest 22.61)

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