From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EUPPQ-0000sn-Th for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:04:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9PE2YCY017213; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:02:34 GMT Received: from flower.jolet.net (cpe-24-27-31-221.austin.res.rr.com [24.27.31.221]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9PDsfEk011484 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:54:41 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0463718034 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:54:40 -0500 (CDT) Received: from flower.jolet.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flower.jolet.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27836-03 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:54:38 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.123.100] (206-127-19-237.fwd.datafoundry.com [206.127.19.237]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74F8718031 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:54:38 -0500 (CDT) From: John Jolet To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:56:12 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <435DFE77.9040802@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <435DFE77.9040802@comcast.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510250856.12741.john@jolet.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jolet.net X-Archives-Salt: f82dcea3-0e9d-44f3-8f43-6b1e6a25c329 X-Archives-Hash: fb1105242e92c75a338493be0f3323e4 On Tuesday 25 October 2005 04:44, sean wrote: > I know this can be a tough call on how to partition a drive, but I am > looking for some input. > > My system will be used as for my own personal use, no server for > outside, though I may run a web server for private in home use, some > games, whatever I wish to play and experiment. If you think you might do re-installs, put /home on a seperate partition, otherwise I normally just have /boot and /. > > Users, mainly just me, and perhaps a family member or three. > Here is what I quickly setup. > > $ df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda3 471M 271M 176M 61% / > udev 1004M 208K 1004M 1% /dev > /dev/hda1 38M 2.6M 34M 8% /boot > /dev/hda5 4.6G 185M 4.2G 5% /var > /dev/hda6 31G 2.3G 27G 8% /usr > shm 1004M 0 1004M 0% /dev/shm > > What caught me off guard was that fact that /home is located under / and > that is where my user profiles are being set, instead of /usr/home like > it is on my freebsd system. > When I copied over my personal files, it quickly filled up the / > partition, which I have since deleted. > Now I noticed that there is a /usr/home, what exactly is that used for, > since users are not there by default? > > I would figure /boot does not really change much in size, leave as is, > maybe shrink a few mb. > /var, up and down, perhaps bring it down a gig, gig and a half. > /usr, would grow depending on software installs, much as possible. I > have not installed much currently. > If /home was on its own, I am guessing that the current / allocation > would be fine? > Anyone confirm? > Now I just have to figure what I want /home to be, or perhaps could the > default setup for users be located in /usr/home? > Would this cause problems? > Is it non standard? > > Thanks > Sean -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net john@jolet.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list