Re: HDD Partitions

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From: Mark Tranchant
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:00

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150MB is unnecessarily large for / with a separate /usr partition. I
have 100MB (and plenty of disk space) and am only using 38MB of it. I've
symlinked /var/texfonts to /usr, but that's about it.

Mark.

James Mandy wrote:
> 
> 800Mb eh?
> 
> 75Mb Swap
> 150MB / root
> the rest in /usr
> 
> I have "swap, / , /usr, /home, /var/log, /www, /squid, /public" but you dont
> have the space just swap , root and /usr is fine.
> 
> Cheers, James
> 
> > I have recently started to explore Linux and I want to know how my drive
> > should be partitioned.
> > It is only a small free area, 800meg or so.  What is really wrong with
> > having just a great big partition at / followed by the swap partition?
> > Also, where do applications traditionally go?  eg.  where should I put
> > the GIMP in my tree?
> >

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Date: 1999/04/22
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