new hard drive setup
Kostas Sfakiotakis
kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr
Wed Dec 15 23:47:50 UTC 2004
Greetings Rick ,
Rick Stevens wrote:
> 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
Rick , if i might intrude and ask , what would a 1 GB boot
partition serve ? Do you build the kernel in there ? I have
never used a /boot partition and i don' t really know the need for
it unless you have a dual boot system with Windows XP on NTFS ?
One more thing is , for example i have 1,25 GB of RAM ( on My FC1 box )
and a 2,5 GB swap partition which almost never get's used, even if it
get's used it is for a few MB ( 10 -15 MB ) . Is there a rule for
the RAM size and the Swap Partition size .
>
> 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.
Well , if it is for whatever then i guess i would have to suggest that he
makes 2 partitions of equal size , so he might have the 2nd partition for
BACKUP .
If i recall well an ancient riddle says that a " Good Backup never hurted
anyone "
Kind Regards,
Kostas
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