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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
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<H3 align="left"><img src="../../gx/dennis/qbubble.gif"
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>Partitioning Linux</H3>
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<p><strong>From Kurt Radecke on Mon, 18 Sep 2000
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<p align="right">Answered by: Heather Stern</p>
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Help, saw some info you posted on linuxdoc.org.
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I am new to Linux.
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I have a 15Gig drive. What is the best way to partition it: I am using
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Redhat 6.2 and the manual says to setup a swap, boot and "<TT>/</TT>" partition.
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I like to recommend:
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<dt>/tmp
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<dd>100 to 300 Mb, depending on kinds of things you do that might
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flood tempspace. Even 400 is not unreasonable, if you have lots
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of disk to burn.
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<dt>/var
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<dd>This place holds system logs, the packaging system databases, your
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incoming mail spool, and your outgoing mail and print spools. That
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means it can overflow pretty quickly if not kept seperate.
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Even on a small system I don't like this to be too small (usu 250 Mb
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is okay for a minimum - but if space is that cramped I also turn off
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a lot of logging).
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<dt>/boot
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<dd>10 or 20 Mb near the front of disk for your kernel(s). This way
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you can mount 'em read only
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<dt>/
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<dd>distros vary quite a bit about how small you can get away with this being,
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but I don't advise less than 200 Mb (unless you're putting something
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together by hand, or only installing "base" without all the cool
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stuff). If you <em>are</em> crafting something by hand you can get this
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fairly tiny by using an initial ramdisk. 500 or 600 Mb is about as large
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as I'd go.
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<dt>swap
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<dd>This is where the changeable portion of working processes are kept
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when they're not the active critter and there's no room to keep them
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live anyway. How much you need depends on how serious a multitasker
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you are. Personally I set it around 100 Mb per drive in my system.
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<dt>/usr
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<dd>can be seperate if you like... in which case I usually make <TT>/home</TT>
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a symlink to <TT>/usr/local/home</TT> so it goes there. If I were going to
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use "grow" to use up the rest of the disk - this would be where.
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You can stretch any of these to be larger but <TT>/tmp</TT> and <TT>/var</TT> grow
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useless after a while - and swap is usually dog slow after about
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twice RAM, so I wouldn't use more than 1.5 times RAM.
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Also, what are your thoughts on installing <A HREF="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME</A> or <A HREF="http://www.kde.org/">KDE</A>. I have a P75
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machine.
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You can use both; I mix and match them with afterstep apps, GTK apps that
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don't use GNOME, and tcl stuff fairly freely. Sometimes K has a better
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tool, sometimes GNOME... but both environments can eat a surprising amount
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of RAM because their core libraries are large, and it's possible they may
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be affected by your older processor, too.
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If you find yourself strapped for memory space use a lightweight theme
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(or switch to a wm that doesn't use themes) and avoid massive tools like
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netscape or emacs in favor of lighter ones like gzilla and lynx for browsing,
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nedit for editing (hey, it's under GPL now, that's cool), and an occasional
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TCL/TK app.
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Thanks for your help.
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<P><STRONG>
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Kurt
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<BR>Published in the <I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 58 October 2000</H5>
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