Re: Multiple Installs = Multiple Swap Partitions?

From: "David L. Johnson" <david.johnson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:13:02 -0500

On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 22:02:32 -0500, David L. Johnson wrote:

> On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:05:03 -0800, iforone wrote:
> 
>> I'm just learning how and which Linux partitions are worth keeping
>> separate (from '/' ) and why...the benefits of having separate /home,
>> /usr, /var, and obviously 'swap' -- it's a lot of info to absorb at
>> once, and I've taken into consideration many comments about it in these
>> groups as of late. I have no issue creating, deleting, resizing
>> partitions, and being new to linux I'm willing to start off with say a
>> total of 3 partitions ( /, /home, /swap) as suggested for beginners.
> 
> Well, I don't really agree with that advice.  These days, huge disks are
> dirt cheap.  Use some of that space to make your partitions larger.  The
> machine I'm on now, my home machine, has an 80G disk, partitioned as:
> 
> /dev/hda2               459174    180752    253923  42% /
> /dev/hda9             28834716   5541500  21828492  21% /backup
> /dev/hda11            40876048     32860  38766792   1% /extra
> /dev/hda8             19228276   3628180  14623348  20% /home
> /dev/hda10            28834716   2364460  25005532   9% /office
> /dev/hda5              4807056     32956   4529916   1% /tmp
> /dev/hda6              9614116   2855484   6270260  32% /usr
> /dev/hda7             19228276   1075720  17175808   6% /usr/local
> /dev/hda3               918354    162128    707228  19% /var
> 
> plus 1G for swap.

Hmm.  Adding up these totals I think the disk was actually bigger than 80
-- probably more like 160.  At any rate, it's cheap.

-- 

David L. Johnson

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References:
- Re: Multiple Installs = Multiple Swap Partitions?
  - From: iforone
- Re: Multiple Installs = Multiple Swap Partitions?
  - From: Dances With Crows
- Re: Multiple Installs = Multiple Swap Partitions?
  - From: iforone
- Re: Multiple Installs = Multiple Swap Partitions?
  - From: David L. Johnson

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