Re: [SLUG] Participations

From: Frank Roberts - SOLT (sotl155360@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Apr 27 2001 - 04:27:48 EDT


Thanks Russell Appreciate the help.
Frank

Russell Hires wrote:
>
> There is an excellent introduction to partitioning on the Debian website at
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-partitioning.en.html
>
> This is a very good supplement to the thorough explanation from before.
>
> Russell
> ____________________________________________________
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>
> ----------
> >From: Frank Roberts - SOLT <sotl155360@earthlink.net>
> >To: slug@nks.net, Kevin Counts <kcounts@usf.edu>
> >Subject: Re: [SLUG] Participations
> >Date: Thu, Apr 26, 2001, 15:49
> >
>
> >What would you recommend for a small desk top work station with a 45GB
> >HD?
> >Thanks
> >Frank
> >
> >Kevin Counts wrote:
> >>
> >> Frank,
> >>
> >> I would increase the size of your swap. Although I don't know your
> >> specific situation, in general I would recommend at least 256 or 384 MB swap
> >> w/ such
> >> a big hard drive (it never hurts to have extra swap)
> >>
> >> In certain instances you can think of partitions as compartments
> >> of a ship. If one compartment fills up, the partition keeps the overflow
> >> from affecting more critical areas.
> >>
> >> I would suggest also creating a partition for /var and one for /tmp
> >> to "water tighten" your host.
> >>
> >> If their are any other directory nodes that have a probability to
> >> fill up, move them off the root partition as well.
> >>
> >> Good luck.
> >>
> >> --\
> >>
> >> Kevin Counts <counts@usf.edu>
> >> System Administrator
> >> Systems Group -- Academic Computing
> >> University of South Florida
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Frank Roberts - SOLT" <sotl155360@earthlink.net>
> >> To: <slug@nks.net>
> >> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 5:22 AM
> >> Subject: [SLUG] Participations
> >>
> >> > Without starting a war what is the list's current thinking on
> >> > participations.
> >> >
> >> > Currently I have this machine divided into 3 participations:
> >> > Boot participation = Set by default (i.e. I forgot the exact size but
> >> > it was around 1 MB)
> >> > Swap = 64 MB
> >> > Main participation = = 45 GB
> >> >
> >> > I am considering changing this to either 4 or 5 participations for my
> >> > next installation.
> >> >
> >> > Added participation would be:
> >> > /usr = 5GB
> >> > /home = 40GB
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> > Frank
> >> >



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