There's bound to be disagreement here, but if you're just setting up a
test box for Oracle then put all your diskspace on / and call it good.
Some people like to make /var its own partition in case the log files get
out of control then they won't fill up the entire disk.  Making separate
partitions for /usr and /home isn't really necessary since this box won't
be used by a lot of users, so you don't need to worry about someone
filling up your entire disk by writing some forking script in their home
directory.  /export is usually used for NFS directories, and you're
probably not doing NFS so you can ignore it.
So, again, if this is just your own personal Oracle playbox, then make the
root partition the entire disk (with some amount dedicated to swap, of
course).
~M

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On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Terence Chang wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I finally got RedHat 7.2 downloaded (5 days through Quest DSL #$%#$) and
> burned on the CDs. I have the following questions. I can not remember where
> I read about the partition size of the disk. I am going to get a 60GB IDE
> disk to install Linux only. What are recommanded partition size for /boot
> (RedHat Doc says 50MB?), /usr, /var, /home and /export? The Linux I am going
> to setup is mainly for running Oracle Database for practice. Should I give
> /usr or /home the most space? What kind of arrangement of disk space should
> I follow? And what exactly /usr, /var, /home and /export are for? On
> Solaris, /home and /export are used for most of the users. How about the
> Linux?
>
> I also download all of the How-To and Mini-How-To PDF files. It is over 200
> files. I was lost and didn't know which PDF will answer my questions.
>
> Thanks!
>
> TC2
>
>
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