On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 10:24:59AM -0000, Raphael Mankin wrote:
First, as has been said combine / /usr and /usr/local. I find that 2Gb is plenty. But keep /usr/src/on a separate partition. The reason is below.
I still disagree with this, its personal preference. Also it was mentioned that ext3 will help you fight filesystem corruption but don't trust it, it only came out of experimental with the 2.4.19 kernel and during the last few days or working on a certain movie with a boy wizard in we had problems with a 120Gb disk which had shots on it that were being composited where all of the files disappeared (and nobody typed rm -rf *) and we ended up having to fsck the disk twice to get the data back. (at this point restoring from the backups would have meant running some of the shots back through the render farm I believe which would have meant overnight too!) Anyhow 2Gb would be far to little for me on a /usr partition. What I currently have on my desktop is this:
abower@dylan:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 749M 66M 646M 10% / /dev/hda4 31M 5.0M 24M 18% /boot /dev/hda6 3.3G 1.8G 1.4G 57% /usr /dev/hda7 842M 210M 590M 27% /var /dev/hda8 4.6G 3.3G 1.2G 74% /opt bagpuss:/home 2.3G 541M 1.8G 24% /home bagpuss:/filestore 49G 29G 20G 59% /filestore
/usr has a kernel source tree in it though, and also Quake II. /opt has unreal tournament 2003 and Quake III in case you were wondering where all the disk space has gone. I still prefer to have a seperate / /boot /usr and /var it means when I need to shuffle around disk space and create new partitions I find it much quicker and easier to do. This disk also is about 40Gb total capacity and has about 10Gb worth of NT/Win98 (games only) and about 18Gb free space and a swap partition at the very end of the disk with 1.5Gb.
Adam