[ale] Partitions

Michael E. Barker mbarker68 at home.com
Mon Jan 21 11:11:29 EST 2002


Alan Bowman wrote:
> 
> I have a question on partitions - I've just gotten back from the
> SuperCompterSale at the Galleria, with a nice new 800Mhz AMD Duron
> machine. It's got all the bells and whistles I could ever hope for, and
> a 20Gb HDD.  I know to most of you that sounds fairly small, but please
> understand that it's taken me nearly 4 years to get to 80% capacity on
> the 4Gb drive in my current machine (P166 w/Slack7).  So, my question:
> how should I partition this drive? How much for /, for /usr, for /home,
> and so on?  If I could get a few examples, I'd much appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks,
> ...alan
> 
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The areas that will grow the most are "/home" "/usr" and "/var".

-Michael

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