Ok, I"ve installed Rhat 7.2 and played around for a while, now I want to get a bit more seious. I'm trying to give up windows (it's worse than crack) so I need to get back rolling in the setup I had for windows. I want to install linux onto a 40 gig drive whose main purpose will be to allow me to surf the web, host an ftp server (all users will be real users on the box), play quake, wolfenstein and the like, and download/watch divx movies, and hold my mp3 archive, which before I formatted was at 14.9 gigs, I lost some shit, but I should be able to easily replace 10 of it....anyway..... My main question is on allocating all that space. Currently I'm dual booting and running on about 8 gigs of space for linux, the rest for windows. Right now I've got about 5 gigs for /usr, 2 for home, and the rest broke down between /, tmp/ and var. Any suggestions on how to split that up on a 40 gig?

I'll just install windows on my other drive when I am ready to get Wolf setup on here. Anyone done that? It sounded rather simple from what I read, but many other things have too and haven't turned out to be that easy since installing linux.

Thanks

Every one has their reasons for doing partitions but here is my opinion.


If you do a lot of partitions you will more than likely find that one day you need more space somewhere when you have more than you need somewhere else.

I would put about 40 or 50 MB on /boot. It's a bit of overkill but not much wasted anyway and you will have room for lots of kernels.

I would make a 256 MB swap partition. You could use a swap file instead but might as well make a partition. double the ram is recommended but I can't see ever using a 3G swap file, if your ram is that high. even a 1G swap seems like a lot of overkill. if you really need it later you could do another swap file in /

the rest would be /

later if you need to you can always move something to another drive.

Yo, Cheese try this as a rough guide for your drive.
/ partition - 300MB should easily be enough.
/var - if you are going to run an ftp server then keep var in a separate partition as if things go pear shaped the logs generated will expand and cripple your system if they fill your /usr partition.2GB
/home - normally this wouldn't be a slarge but if you have all those files and they must be on your hard drive then this is going to be huge (25GB?).
/usr - I would go for about 10GB
swap=same as your RAM
Really though I would consider putting all those mp3 files on your other drive and hosting both windows and linux on the main drive - say 10GB for windows and the 30GB divided up for linux.
Anyway,that's only my ideas but I'm sure you will get more suggestions soon.
Good Luck