Paritition Sizes

[catch]

im particular with how many bytes are you going to partition with the different directories of linux. that is, the tree (i.e. /home, /bin, /opt and others).

and most, especially, the /swap. i know /swap is equivalent to 2 * RAM (physical memory). but i usually bend the idea about the size of it. for example, i have a 25MB of RAM and /swap should be, ideally, 512MB. but thinking of an upgrade in the time future, i probably would let this be around 1GB :-)

[vern]

There are lots of things to also take into account like ... what is the purpose of the box? What is acceptable performance? ... etc.

On my FC2 desktop, I have 500MB of Swap. That should be all I need for the tasks that I do. I have a couple of Linux servers that have 500MB and 800MB of swap respectively although they never actually use more than 5% of that. / for the box that I have people access is 20 gigs and /home is roughtly 190 gigs. All my slackware packages are on /slackware and I am about to get another 200 gig HD and mount that as /share.

[BadDudes]

on my 40gb desktop right now im using

/swap = 512mb
/boot = 100mb
/u01 = 10gb (my database! and other DB tools)
/ = 10gb

the rest is Fat32 for my M$win !

:wink:

[Jdun]

OMG, someone said FAT32 !
What OS you use?
Windows 98 ?

[vern]

Yeah, I just noticed, why haven't you upgraded to an NT OS yet?

[BadDudes]

OMG, someone said FAT32 !
What OS you use?
Windows 98 ?

yup definetly heheh :P... our tools being used in our development and users support is still for win9x ... no budget for upgrade yet :cry: :cry: :cry:

[hombre]

back then, i'm very particular to the partition sizes since ive only known linux via books now, its only swap and / for me. if need arises, i'll just plug-in another hd and soft link it to the system.

[catch]

@hombre: i was like that, too. now, im happy with the automated partition done during the installation.

[Tamblot]

you can go for automatic partitioning and just review it before proceeding with the installation process.