On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 11:50 +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > On Saturday 20 November 2004 17:41, Chris Jones wrote: > > 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)? > > If it works, one big partition, swap to a file. > > I've tried multipartitions, it alays causes hassles like this and it's never > saved me from anthing. > > If your hardware is pickly about where it loads the kernel from, then /boot of > 100 Mb ((or whatever fc docs say). > > Swap to a file, not to a partition. I agree about the partitioning. The habit of splitting things into various partitions came from large multi-user systems where it has definite advantages. But for workstations, or other essentially single user systems it is definitely sub-optimal. Your experience is the exact problem - no space in one partition and space available in another but not usable. My advice is one partition per disk unless your hardware requires a /boot partition to guarantee the bootable images are at low disk addresses. About swapping I am not so sure. In the old days a swap partition was specially formatted and swap I/O avoided the standard disk drivers and gained quite a bit of efficiency. I do not know if this is still the case. -- Graham Campbell <gc1111@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
