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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.
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.
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