Disk Partitioning

[pruebens]

Okay I was wondering what is the best partition scheme to use.

right now I have my root (/) mount point on the front of my first drive, then I have a small 250 MB swap, then the rest of the first drive is my /home drive. On my other drive the ENTIRE disk is allocated for the /usr point.

My question is.......is this the best solution? I tried to use the software RAID once and didn't see much of a gain in performance (but I had it partitioned differently).

thanks!

[damonbrinkley]

For my normal workstations I usually have a scheme like this:

/boot 100 MB
/ ~500 MB to 1 GB
/usr ~5-10 GB
/home rest of disk

It really varies though. I always have a /boot partition and try to keep most things separate from / so it doesn't get corrupted. You can also have /var and /tmp as separate partitions if you're worried about disk space being filled and crashing your system. Having these separate will help fix that.