New install. Partioning advice please.

[Nat Gross]

Paul Howarth wrote:

> Nat Gross wrote:
>
>> Simple fc2 default install has my disk as follows:
>> /dev/hda1 98meg  /boot  85.4 meg free
>> /dev/hda2 71gig   /         62  gig free.
>
>
> Lots of free space then. You could boot from the rescue CD, not mount 
> your filesystems, then use resize2fs to shrink the size of your root 
> filesystem (/dev/hda2) to say 20G, then use fdisk to reduce the size 
> of that partition to whatever size you actually wanted (> 20G) and 
> then finally use resize2fs to grow the root filesystem back to the 
> size of the partition (this convoluted scheme makes sure that your 
> filesystem never exceeds the partition size at any time). This would 
> leave you with whatever space you had reduced the partition by to use 
> for new partitions, which you can add using fdisk.
>
>> I would like to have a /usr/data structure (or  /data) where I store 
>> data from ALL apps.
>
>
> That should be fine.
>
>> Also, a /usr/myPrograms structure, for programs that I 'manually' 
>> (not from the distro)  install.
>
>
> These are usually put in /usr/local so you might have a separate 
> partition for that.
>
> Paul.

Beautiful!
Thank you much.
-nat