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?
>
My setup here is like this...
/ - 4GB Rest of the install
/boot - 100MB For mostly kernels and System.Map files only
/home1 - 5GB this is where I keep my own stuff
And since you are going to use a DB, I would setup a another separate
partition just for this as you can reinstall the dist all you want and not
affect the /home1 and this partition something like
/database - as big as you wantta be.
Here is my current setup on my Linux/Windows box...
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdf3 3953068 1873520 1878736 50% /
/dev/hdf1 93309 17841 70651 21% /boot
/dev/hdf6 5020512 1925248 2840236 41% /home1
/dev/hdf2 3953068 1989588 1762668 54% /oldroot
/dev/hde1 1948040 1769300 178740 91% /mnt/drive-c
/dev/hde5 481664 256048 225616 54% /mnt/drive-d
/dev/hde6 481664 417816 63848 87% /mnt/drive-e
/dev/hde7 1948044 1742036 206008 90% /mnt/drive-f
/dev/hde8 1948044 1260484 687560 65% /mnt/drive-g
/dev/hde9 1948044 1899324 48720 98% /mnt/drive-h
/dev/hde10 1948044 1277052 670992 66% /mnt/drive-i
/dev/hde11 1948044 1440252 507792 74% /mnt/drive-j
/dev/hde12 1948044 1049524 898520 54% /mnt/drive-k
/dev/hde13 1948044 1211876 736168 63% /mnt/drive-l
/dev/hde14 2437068 2073508 363560 86% /mnt/drive-m
/dev/hde15 1018088 369468 648620 37% /mnt/drive-n
/dev/hdg5 2047968 70624 1977344 4% /mnt/drive-o
/dev/hdg6 2044240 1258552 785688 62% /mnt/drive-p
/dev/hdg8 2016016 1677980 235624 88% /usr/local/games
/dev/hdg9 2205780 844856 1248876 41% /home1/jzc/SO-Beta
You will note the /oldroot partition as I use to go back and forth between
that and / whenever I install new distributions, keep the old one for
fallback in case the new goes into the blackhole and crashes. The last two
are for my linux games and Star Office. BTW, the /mnt/drive-* partitions
are all mounted read-only just so that if I want read the files from
there.
jzc
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