best partition schemes - post yours!

[waxmop]

I've got 2 hard drives, both of which i'm dedicating 100% to linux. one is 8 gigs and the other is 30. I can't decide how to partition them!

Here's my favorite idea so far:

HDA (8 gigs):
512 mb /home
3 gigs /var
128mb /tmp
64mb /boot
4 gigs /
256mb <swap>


HDB (30 gigs):
30 gigs (all 100%) /usr/local


What do y'all think? How are other people partitioning their systems? Everybody post your /etc/fstab files!

[element-x]

machine #1 (10gb)
/ --- 512mb
/usr --- 2.5gb
/var --- 1gb (mail,db, whatever else is stored here)
/tmp --- 512mb
/home --- 4.5gb
/export --- 2gb (holds web page php/images, ftp[web logs(priv user),private files,basic quick storage]

machine #2 (40gb)

3.5gb --- win98se (mom's OS)
9.5gb --- win2k (my use[3dsmax,photoshop] 3dsmax anims get large usually)
13gb --- FreeBSD (sliced)
14gb --- Slackware (workstation) [same setup as machine #1 but larger /usr and /home partitions]

note: Usually when formatting/cleaning my Linux installation, I don't like keeping previous compiled programs and what not, so that's why i don't create a /usr/local partition. (And I don't know any other reason to keep it)

[MandK_10]

I use RH7.1 on main machine this is part. scheme:
/ 800Meg
/tmp 500Meg
/var 500Meg
/usr 4Gig
/usr/local 3Gig
/home 3Gig
<swap> 128Meg

There are also Fat32 partitions and free space as this is spread across 2(two) 20Gig Hardrives.

I have second machine with Slackware and 10Gig drive
/ 800meg
/usr 3.5Gig
/usr/local 3Gig
/var 500Meg
/tmp 500Meg
<swap> 128Meg
/home rest of drive

[waxmop]

I've decided to use /usr/local as the place where i'll work on programming. that's where I'll set my own CVS trees and put my own crude scripts and programs.

where do y'all store most of your own home-written software/data files/mp3s/whatever? in /home?

if hosting a web or ftp server, where do you set the root for the server? the apache default is /var/www/html i think, but var doesn't seem like the best place to keep it.

On another note, what's the absolute largest my / needs to be?

[tamur]

RH 7.0 on 40 gig drive
/ 91M
/appl 1.5g -- filepro database app
/cal 1.0g --my stuff
/home 2.0g
/music 3.0g
/opt 1.0g
/tmp 500m
/usr 3.0g -- with all the various docs this is at 59%
/usr2 1.5g -- account software
/var 1.0g -- this should have been much smaller

*******

If I were doing it again, I'd probably create a /lib, a /etc, a /bin and a /sbin

[debiandude]

Here is mine:
/ - 100
/lib - 200 mb
/boot - 20 mb
/etc - 100
/var - 1gb (logs and web and stuff)
/tmp - 250
/home - 500 mb
/usr/data - 30gb - every users data dir for mp3 and storage etc
/usr - 7 gb

its spread across 4 segate cheeta's

[error27]

/ 20G
swap 384 M

[Jonad]

(slacker:jonad) df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 1.4G 453M 938M 33% /
/dev/hda6 4.7G 303M 4.1G 7% /home
/dev/hda7 2.6G 1.3G 1.1G 53% /usr
/dev/hda8 243M 18M 216M 8% /var
(slacker:jonad)

[Venom]

Not to downgrade ur discussions but I installed Mandrake 6.5. After reading the users guide, I was expecting to have to do all the partitioning that you throwing around. But when I followed the Manrake installation guide I was never asked about partitioning, do I still have a required amount of partitions or am I screwed?

[bdg1983]

Originally posted by Venom:
<STRONG>Not to downgrade ur discussions but I installed Mandrake 6.5. After reading the users guide, I was expecting to have to do all the partitioning that you throwing around. But when I followed the Manrake installation guide I was never asked about partitioning, do I still have a required amount of partitions or am I screwed?</STRONG>

I believe with most distros you need to install using 'Expert' mode in order to have complete control over the partitioning.

[chikn]

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