any partitioning thoughts ?
 

Hello everyone,

Since I’ve been screwing around with the system getting my wireless working, the system locks up after 15 – 20 minutes of uptime. I figure it’s the OS (Mandrake 9.1 – kernel 2.4) and not the hardware because I dual boot with Windows XP Pro and there isn’t a problem in XP – also the problem started about the same time I (eventually) got the wireless working.

The last time I installed, I let the OS partition the hard-drive. This time I’d like to be a bit more precise. Here’s what I’m working with:

20GB hard drive
10GB for Windows
10GB for Linux

I think (?) I would like to partition it in this manner:
‘ / ‘ (root) – how large should this be ??
‘ /boot ‘ – how large should this be ??
‘ /swap ‘ – 1 GB (I have 500MB of RAM)
‘ /var ‘ – how large should this be ??
‘ /tmp ‘ – how large should this be ??
‘ /home ‘ – how large should this be ??

This is my work laptop, so there’s not going to be any web hosting or ftp’ing or print server or samba shares or a mass of data or additional users, etc, etc.

Any thoughts or ideas out there ????? I’m open to suggestions.

Regards,
tomap

Here, try this link, maybe it will help.

"This Link"


Good Luck


Druisgod

Thanks for the link - that's what I was looking for!

Regards,
tomap

Personally, I feel that simpler is better. So I only have two partitions:
/ : managed by Mandrake/RPM (overwritten on reinstall)
/local : managed by me (not overwritten on reinstall)
Each time after a fresh install:
- I configure HOME directories to be /local/home/<user>
- I rm -rf /usr/local && ln -s /local/.sys/usr/local /usr/local
- I rm -rf /opt && ln -s /local/.sys/opt /opt
And under /local, I also have /local/share, which is a depot for all-users files, such as songs, pictures, videos... (much like /Depot in GoboLinux)

When I need to backup, I know I only have to focus on /local and /etc.
Of course, this is for a desktop or small intranet server, not for a public server or for lots of users.

Yves.