On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 09:41 +0000, Chris Jones wrote: > Currently, I am running FC2 and until now have had no problem with > installing new kernels. However, with the latest FC2 kernel (2.6.9-1.3), > I have experienced the issue of the install running out of space on / > when installing. My file system sizes are as follows:- > df -m > Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 251 216 22 91% / > none 252 0 252 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hda9 107114 72461 34654 68% /home > /dev/hda5 251 17 222 7% /tmp > /dev/hda7 4031 3579 247 94% /usr > /dev/hda6 510 263 222 55% /var > /dev/hdb1 4925 2889 1786 62% /var/lycoris > /dev/hdb6 11379 1328 10052 12% /export/lycoris > //gandalf/gandalf_c 40005 12771 27234 32% /export/gandalfc > //gandalf/gandalf_d 37001 5242 31759 15% /export/gandalfd > //gandalf/gandalf_e 37464 12896 24568 35% /export/gandalfe > /dev/loop0 8 1 8 1% > /tmp/initrd.mnt.J27039 How many kernels do you have installed? Could you remove an old one prior to installing the new one? > /dev/hda is a Seagate 120Gb drive partitioned as shown above, while > /dev/hdb is an old Quantum Fireball of 17Gb. > > My question is what are the best partition sizes I should adopt, > particalarly as I am about to upgrade to FC3 - / and /usr are both too > small currently. Should I create symlinks into /home for some of the > directory's in the / and /usr areas? If so, which ones can safely be > symlinked? Or should I re-partition (after backing up everything I need)? With a nice, big 120G drive like that there's little point in skimping on the "system" partitions. I used to think that 2GB was enough for /usr, then 5GB and now I'd use 10GB. If I was doing a new install now I'd do: 100MB /boot, forced to be a primary partition on the first drive. Everything else would be LVM logical volumes (make the rest of the disk an LVM physical volume) so that sizes could be adjusted if necessary: 1GB / 10GB /usr 1GB /var 1GB /tmp (some apps insist on writing to /tmp; you'll get away with a much smaller [e.g. 250M] partition in most cases) Share the rest amongst the other partitions you need (e.g. /home, /var/lycoris, swap space) and leave a few GB of the volume unallocated so that you can grow a volume if needed. You could add the smaller disk to the same volume group if you wanted, effectively adding its size to that of the large disk, or, if you wanted to keep it separate (perhaps its performance is significantly different, or you might want to replace it sometime fairly soon), you could make it a separate volume group and add only e.g. the lycoris data to that volume. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
