Partition size depends upon what ?

tofee · 03-23-2006, 12:23 AM

hi,

when we are going to install RHEL then we have to assign the size of '/' (slash), /boot, /usr, /tmp, /home, /var , ....

i would like to know that actually this size specification depends on what ?

thanks.

tofee.

mbreith · 03-23-2006, 12:28 AM

Check out here
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
Then decide how much space you will need. It will be entirely dependent on what you intend to do with your computer. For mail servers, /var will need to be large enough. For home systems, /home will get a lot of use. etc...

pixellany · 03-23-2006, 12:56 AM

Actually, to install a Linux distro, you dont need ANY of that.....
All you need is two partitions:
~1GB or so for swap
10GB or more for everything else (mounted simply as / )

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