new hard drive setup
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Sat Dec 11 02:32:34 UTC 2004
Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr. wrote:
> Hi all,
> I got my start in Linux with a pre-configured system, and I'm still a
> rank beginner. My system is Redhat 9 kept up2date.
>
> My original hard drive is small (8G) partitioned as follows:
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 14 995 7887915 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 996 1027 257040 82 Linux swa
>
> My hard drive is nearly full, so I bought another one - 60G.
> It's in, and I was able to see it with fdisk, but I haven't done any
> partitioning or formatting yet - I never did such things before.
>
> What I'm looking for is suggestions as to what would be a good way to
> partition it, and possibly what to put on it.
Lordy! Well, it rather depends on what you're planning to do. If
you wish to move your existing system to the new drive, that can be
a bit complicated. It's doable, but it's not for the faint-of-heart.
Should you wish to do that, a normal partitioning scheme we use is this:
/boot 512MB - 1GB
/ 2GB - 4GB
swap twice your RAM size
/var 4GB (8GB if you have a lot of log activity)
/usr rest of disk
That's for a development box. Servers usually have the /boot and /
partitions smaller and the /var partition bigger due to the logging
that goes on.
If you just want to use the secondary drive to hold miscellaneous stuff,
it's rather like having a "D:\" drive in Windows...put whatever you
want on it.
If you could provide some details on what you wish to do, we could be
of more help.
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