[AuckLUG] Partitioning suggestions

[Stig Hornuff]

To enable a bit of fleksibility - and the possibility for testing upgrades
or other distributions, I design my partitions as follows:

/boot  :~60MB (it is Not too small)
swap   : at least the same amount as physical RAM (I my case 2G).
/      : primary root, 5G
/other : other root, 5G - used to clone/test/upgrade of f.ex primary root.
/opt   : 15-30G - enough to hold f.ex Oracle, PostgresSQL, etc. etc...
/data  : ??G, If you want a separate slice for data....
/home  : rest of disk.

The above is pretty close to my workstation, in a server enviroment, I'd
prefer:

/boot  :~60MB (it is Not too small)
swap   : at least the same amount as physical RAM (I my case 2G).
/      : primary root, 5G
/other : other root, 5G - used to clone/test/upgrade of f.ex primary root.
/opt   : 15-30G - enough to hold f.ex Oracle, PostgresSQL, etc. etc...
/home  : <10G - I keep this to a minimum.
/data  : rest of disk.

You do not want to mix growing application data with your root volume as
that may bring you system down.

Just my 2c..

/Stig

> Hi list,
>
> I'm about to set up a new PC. It will have 2 x SATA 160GB HDD's in a
> software RAID 1 array. I also use the GRUB boot loader.
>
> My plan is to install Kubuntu 7.10 once the final release is out. I tend
> to consider it a desktop with server functionality :-)
>
> I only have 4 users with myself really only contributing to storage (music
> etc)
>
> In the past I created partitions as follows (approx, 80G drive in this
> case):
>
> swap = 1GB
> /boot = 50MB
> /home = 14GB
> / = 60GB
>
> Is there really a need these days for a separate /boot partition (50MB
> is/was too small)?
>
> What are peoples preferred schemes for partitioning drives?
>
> I appreciate everyone will have a different need, but any suggestions are
> welcome.
>
> --
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>
> Roland
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