I recommended, for a 20 GB nominal drive:I see we have different outlooks :-) To me, in a "personal" computer like this, /home/fritz mostly has .bashrc, .mozilla, etc. and maybe a few other files like letters, notes. But in total pretty small. If I want to load up a 100 MB database of whatsis, then I tend to put it in /var/whatsis, or maybe /var/personal or /var/business, or something like that. Also, a lot of things you might want to install might insist on going into /usr/share/yaddayadda, but almost never into ~.
I'd consider 12 GB for /home, and the rest for swap, /boot, and /.
Fritz Whittington wrote:
1. It's hard for me to understand 12 GB for /home -- this sounds like a personal-use machine.
2. On my FC2, /usr/share is about 3 GB. All the rest of /usr is about 3 GB.
Do you think 12 GB is too much or too little? I agree with the likely usage, and your figures for /usr sound about right. Allow 1 GB for the rest of the system, and 1 GB for such things as /boot, swap, and various formatting overheads, and you're left with 12 GB.
The original poster will probably want that for user data: it should therefore be /home.
James.
Partly this is for ease of backup. I want to keep ~ small enough to backup often. That 100 MB reference database can probably be re-downloaded.
Now, regardless of all the above, I just think unless you are setting up a big multi-user or server with tons of disk space to burn, and want to distribute certain filesystems over certain drives/partitions to speed up inode operations under heavy loads, etc. then you should keep all of / in one big pot (again, excepting /boot and swap), because you never really know in advance which of /usr, /usr/share, /var, /tmp or whatever is going to need more space as you use the system over time.
-- Fritz Whittington Dependence on computers is apparently making a significant fraction of the population incurably stupid. (Fritz Whittington, Risks Digest 22.61)
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