Here is a useful guide to partitioning your Linux distribution. I did not come up with the core ideas of this article, and all due credit goes to Wes Hablett, the chief network administrator at Pepperjam.
I just reformatted my hard drive to use only Linux, Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn in particular. It’s time to go back to Penn State University soon and I need to return to my IST mindset. I wanted to learn more about the Linux directory structure, so I figured I would ask The Wesley about how to correctly partition my hard drive. Here it is, a perfect table of partition size guidelines for the average home user:
| Partition | Size |
|---|---|
| swap space | RAM x 2 |
| /var/ | 5 GB |
| /boot/ | 100 MB |
| /usr/ | 4 GB |
| / | 1 GB |
| /home/ | Everything else |
The Conversation {1 comments}
Common practice would be to also add a /tmp fs. Hate to see a box come to it knees b/c of an unbounded /tmp dir.
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