<DIV>Thanks for your added input, I see I've got a lot of reading to do. I'll keep you all posted as to the outcome. Just to let ya know, I've got nearly 17 gigs to work with. So I hope thats enough?</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks, tHecActUsKid:)<BR><BR><B><I>Dennis Ruzeski <dennisr@corp.kanoodle.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>Cyber Source is right- This topic is a heated controversy amongst sys admins. The bottom line is that there is no 'right' way to partition your drive (assuming that you leave enough room for everything.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>my home system layout is like this-</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>/boot - 100M</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>/ - 7G</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>1024 swap</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>/home - rest of disk.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>I made a separate home partition for 2 reasons- 1 is that I now have a partition that I can keep safe while I reinstall my OS (which I do frequently for testing and such). and 2 is that I can format the partition with different options as far as block size, journaling options, and size reserved for root for performance reasons.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>There's other reasons to have separate partitions- </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>For example- I don't mount the /boot partition by default- There's no real need. I mount it to install a new kernel or mess with the boot loader options.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>System backups can be easier. At my workplace we do backups with dd and ssh and it makes doing a whole partition easy.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>Also, having certain data that doesn't change (say a partition with a large media collection) can be mounted read only to keep it somewhat safer from accidental deletion.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>Finally, some places have special needs as far as logging- At work we have a 25G var partition for the tremendously huge apache logs we generate.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>I hope this clears some things up--</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=163010414-10032004>--Dennis</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> TheCactusKid Cactus [mailto:thecactuskid45@yahoo.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 10, 2004 8:34 AM<BR><B>To:</B> nflug@nflug.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: Types of partitions<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT size=3><STRONG>Hi y'all,</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>I've got a question. Now I read that there's a /boot, /root, /swap, /user/local & or /user, (don't really understand the difference?) and /home. Are there any others I should know about in a typical installation or is this it? What would be the difference between.... in the line-up that is....from a Workstation and Server class install. (as far as types of partitions) What would be the line-up of either? I know I'm not setting up a server class system but for the heck of it what would be the line-up? Thanks for all the help.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>tHecActUsKid:)</FONT></STRONG></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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