[NTLUG:Discuss] / filling up...

[Greg Edwards]

Wayne Dahl wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 08:29, Rev. wRy wrote:
> 
> 
> To answer Darin's question about what I consider to be "major"
> directories...or, I guess the directories that I've put in their own
> partitions, they are as below...and I came up with this list from some
> install guide I found somewhere...can't remember where at this time...
> 
> /		341 Megs
> /boot		53.2 Megs
> /swap		467.6 Megs (this is actually a little smaller than it 			   
> should be, from what I've read as I have 256 Megs 			    Megs of memory
> in this machine, but it seems to 			    work ok.)
> /tmp		1.3 Gigs
> /var		2.2 Gigs
> /opt		3.8 Gigs  I'ved actually used this space to install some 			 
> software to evaluate...like Star Office.
> /usr/local	2.4 Gigs
> /usr/src	2.4 Gigs
> /home		9.1 Gigs
> /usr		9.1 Gigs
> 
> I thought I had a separate partition for /root, but I see I don't, but I
> don't guess that's really a problem.
> 

> 
> Wayne
> 

Wayne,

I use to split my drive(s) up like your doing but I gave up on that 
approach several upgrades ago.  I make 3 partitions now.  Every machine 
has a purpose and I create a /server partition to support that purpose.

For example my primary work station also serves as the homes host for 
all of my other systems so I have a /server partition and /home is 
linked to /server/home.  My main workstation also supports my cvs 
archive in the /server partition so the data resides there with a 
/usr/src/cvs link to it.  Combining this with automount and NFS makes 
life a little simpler.

By doing it this way I only need to backup /server and /etc on any of my 
machines to have a fully restorable archive.  This helps with the issues 
of partitions filling up as well.

On this machine with a 20G HD

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6             5.8G  2.1G  3.5G  38% /
/dev/hda1             124M  1.8M  116M   2% /boot
/dev/hda7              13G  1.2G   11G  10% /server

Plenty of work space on / and a backup doesn't need the 2G from / except 
for whats in /etc.  I just wish so much of the X stuff wasn't in /etc ;(

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Greg Edwards
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