Partition

vcheah · 12-14-2001, 11:00 AM

I always have trouble with partitioning a linux system
I wonder is there any minimum and maximum requirement
there are book say that i should have only 100mb in the /
because the / doesn't store anything. what about the folder? erm tricky.. any good suggestion or good reference ?
well i think it will me more accurate or understandable if you have the answer in percentage .

trickykid · 12-14-2001, 02:44 PM

well.. usually you need more than 100 megs for / everything is basically installed there.. its swap you usually don't need more than 100 to 125 megs for as its just a raw data partition for memory type purposes.

the easiest setup would probably be this:

swap = 125 megs
/boot = 16 megs or so
/ = rest of hard drive

also you can usually sometimes make your /home a gig or more for your users home directories.

vcheah · 12-14-2001, 03:05 PM

someone told me that the /swap will work good if you balance(make it equal with ur ram size) but my ram size is 1 gig so ?
what the /swap for that big?

trickykid · 12-14-2001, 03:15 PM

if you have a gig of ram.. in a practical system, your swap probably wouldn't even get touched then.. you could probably just make it 100 megs and that is all you need.. or even smaller.
most documentation for swap was made back in the days when 64 megs was normal in a system... so people doubled their ram size with swap.. don't make your swap a gig, you would be wasting space.