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Article #3921Re: Partitioning advice
From: Perry Rapp
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 00:00
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I set up LINUX recently on a 200 MB drive, and I have not used LINUX much, and I read the suggestion in the SAG to have a separate root partition, so I made four partitions. I made a 10 MB partition for root (/ and /etc and /sbin and I forget what else) because my size was currently 5 MB almost so the suggestion of 5 seemed way too dangerous for me. :-) I made two 10 MB partitions - one for swap and one for whatever. I mounted the rest on /usr, and made /var an alias to /usr/var and /home an alias to /usr/home. It was the only way I could think of to let home & usr & var all compete for the majority of the space. I haven't done anything with it yet, so I can't say how good that division is. But one thing is that the who command doesn't work, and it worked before I split the system up that way, so it might not be following some symbolic link correctly (it has to follow two - I forget which ones). Perry Rapp
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11663c,b50e8bc4904a8ebf X-Google-Attributes: gid11663c,public From: prapp@csc.com (Perry Rapp) Subject: Re: Partitioning advice Date: 1995/05/17 Message-ID: <3pdgeg$b99@explorer.csc.com> X-Deja-AN: 102990047 distribution: dc sender: prapp@csc.com references: <3pbf3h$9fq@news.cais.com> summary: I made a /usr partition, and some aliases, and who fails organization: Computer Sciences Corporation newsgroups: dc.org.linux-users