There is an excellent introduction to partitioning on the Debian website at
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-partitioning.en.html
This is a very good supplement to the thorough explanation from before.
Russell
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>From: Frank Roberts - SOLT <sotl155360@earthlink.net>
>To: slug@nks.net, Kevin Counts <kcounts@usf.edu>
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] Participations
>Date: Thu, Apr 26, 2001, 15:49
>
>What would you recommend for a small desk top work station with a 45GB
>HD?
>Thanks
>Frank
>
>Kevin Counts wrote:
>>
>> Frank,
>>
>> I would increase the size of your swap. Although I don't know your
>> specific situation, in general I would recommend at least 256 or 384 MB swap
>> w/ such
>> a big hard drive (it never hurts to have extra swap)
>>
>> In certain instances you can think of partitions as compartments
>> of a ship. If one compartment fills up, the partition keeps the overflow
>> from affecting more critical areas.
>>
>> I would suggest also creating a partition for /var and one for /tmp
>> to "water tighten" your host.
>>
>> If their are any other directory nodes that have a probability to
>> fill up, move them off the root partition as well.
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>> --\
>>
>> Kevin Counts <counts@usf.edu>
>> System Administrator
>> Systems Group -- Academic Computing
>> University of South Florida
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Frank Roberts - SOLT" <sotl155360@earthlink.net>
>> To: <slug@nks.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 5:22 AM
>> Subject: [SLUG] Participations
>>
>> > Without starting a war what is the list's current thinking on
>> > participations.
>> >
>> > Currently I have this machine divided into 3 participations:
>> > Boot participation = Set by default (i.e. I forgot the exact size but
>> > it was around 1 MB)
>> > Swap = 64 MB
>> > Main participation = = 45 GB
>> >
>> > I am considering changing this to either 4 or 5 participations for my
>> > next installation.
>> >
>> > Added participation would be:
>> > /usr = 5GB
>> > /home = 40GB
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Frank
>> >
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