Partitioning -- was Re: choosing a distro and version

[Janina Sajka]

Yes, they were missing, sorry about that. Playing around with unfamiliar 
software ...

Let me try this again ...

Since you're only using this linux computer for yourself, and since your 
hard drives are relatively small as these things are thought of today, I'd 
advise dumping the /var and /tmp partitions. The 400 mB you specified for 
/ is sufficient for / and /var and /tmp most probably. If anything on /var 
gets too large, which is unlikely, you can always move it to /home and 
create a symbolic link in /var--so you are not boxing yourself in by doing 
this.

I guess that if it were me, I'd want a bit more than 1 gB for /usr because 
I'd expect to play around with software. On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Ed Barnes 
wrote:

> Hi janina, I think your editional comments you referred too are missing, or
> at least I am unable to find them. Thanks. Ed
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 3:03 PM
> Subject: Re: Partitioning -- was Re: choosing a distro and version
> 
> 
> Hi, Ed:
> 
> This looks much better to me. A couple of comments sill, however:
> 
> 
> 
> Ed Barnes writes:
> > Janina and list.
> > I am learning more and more from this list as I write to it and read the
> > messages of others and I should add that I am thoroughally enjoying
> > participating.
> > Guess the fact that I am a bit of a computer nird might have something to
> do
> > with it in a sense because I spend hours and hours fooling around at
> > computer stuff outside of what school requires just because I enjoy it as
> a
> > hobby.
> > Nevertheless, yes Janina I did forget the ned for a /usr partition.
> > Regarding putting the swap partition on /dev/hda1, I found it a little odd
> > that you were commenting on this as I couldn't remember writing that in
> the
> > original message.
> >      I actually didn't or didn't intend to write it that way but I've
> looked
> > at the message that you would have received late last night and that is
> what
> > you saw when you read the message so it makes some sense now.
> >  I have a touchpad on my notebook which I've not yet disabled and
> sometimes
> > if my palm hits it as I type and I don't realize it my messages end up as
> a
> > bit of a jumble and things are miss-aligned.
> > The pointer that you use a / partition of 256 mb approx and that I could
> get
> > away with 400 mb or so is invaluable.
> > This drastically changes things, but it is change for the better.
> > After reading your note I am wondering if a partition scheme such as the
> > following would be more appropriate? Once again I'm planning on installing
> > the modified Red Hat 7.2 on a Pentium II 233 mhz w 64 mb of ram. Any and
> all
> > thoughts welcome folks.
> > /dev/hda is a 2 gb hd
> > /dev/hda1
> > / partition 400 mb
> > /dev/hda2
> > /usr partition 1 gb (I don't plan on installing anything from x)
> > /dev/hda3
> > /var 600 mb (very limitted mail and web and dns server capability)
> > /dev/hdb is a 1.6 gb hard disk
> > /dev/hdb1
> > swap partition of size 200 mb
> > /dev/hdb2
> > /tmp 400 mb
> > /dev/hdb3
> > /home remaining space on hard disk
> > Many thanks to all in advance.
> > Ed Barnes
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 2:03 PM
> > Subject: Re: choosing a distro and version
> >
> >
> > I don't know about the wisdom of putting swap in hda1. Sounds unusual to
> > me, put I don't know that there's actually anything wrong with that. I
> > just have never seen that.
> >
> > Also, it's not your /root -- but your / partition which is the root. 1.5
> > gB is undoubtedly large--try 500 mB or even less. I get away with about
> > 256 mB these days. Essentially, make this bigger if it includes /var, and
> > less if /var is a separate partition, and less if /var will have
> > relatively little to do--no ftp, no web, only your mail, etc.
> >
> > Your note does not speak of /usr. That is very important, and will take at
> > least 1 gB if you install nothing from X, and about 3.5 gB if you install
> > everything in the RH 7.2 distribution.
> >
> > My advice is to let diskdruid figure out where to put things. It's good at
> > that. Just specify the sizes and mount points. The term "Mount points," by
> > the way,  is linux speak for things like /, and /usr, and /home, etc.
> >
> >
> >
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org