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Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup?

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Andrew,

I can't take the guided partitioning route because I use my hard disk drive to dual boot with Microsoft Windows 10.






On Wednesday, July 29, 2020, 5:53:01 AM GMT+8, Andrew Cater <amacater@gmail.com> wrote: 





To be honest, on 256G - when you don't know what you want - I'd be inclined to take the guided partitioning all in one partition layout as a good start. Logs rotate these days, downloads can be deleted. If you know you're going to be running lots of things in one particular partition, that's slightly different - I have 6TB as a dedicated LVM volume under /srv here in one machine because there's a local Linux mirror across my desk, but that's exceptional

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 9:23 PM Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> gajuph4pre@yahoo.com wrote: 
>> I have manually partitioned my hard disk drive as follows:
>> 
>> /boot is assigned 200MB
>> /root is assigned 10GB
>> /swap is assigned 20GB
>> /home is assigned 35GB
>> /var is assigned 10GB
>> /usr is assigned 5GB
>> /usr-local is assigned 5GB
>> /opt is assigned 5GB
>> /srv is assigned 5GB
>> 
>> In terms of capacity, which of the above partitions are over-provisioned?
>> 
> 
> All of them, none of them. These are the sorts of hard
> assignments I expect from the UNIX Systems Administrator
> Handbook, circa 1997 and Solaris.
> 
> My recommendation:
> 
> /       100 GB
> /home   100 GB
> swap 1 GB
> optionally, /var 20 GB.
> 
> You don't need a separate /boot unless you're running an odd
> filesystem for root.
> 
> You don't need more swap than 1 GB because any use of swap after
> the kernel settles things down (say, ten minutes after boot)
> means that you need more RAM. And you don't really need more
> RAM.
> 
> You don't need a separate /usr or /usr/local or /opt or /srv
> under any conditions. That differentiation comes from a time
> when disks were tens of megabytes.
> 
> You only need a separate /var if you think you're going to fill
> up log space or similar without noticing. logrotate is pretty
> standard these days.
> 
> -dsr-
> 
> 

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Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? "gajuph4pre@yahoo.com" <gajuph4pre@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-28 23:20 +0200
  Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2020-07-28 23:30 +0200
  Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-07-28 23:30 +0200
    Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? Andrew Cater <amacater@gmail.com> - 2020-07-29 00:00 +0200
      Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-07-29 00:30 +0200
        Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? Andrew Cater <amacater@gmail.com> - 2020-07-29 00:50 +0200
          Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? "gajuph4pre@yahoo.com" <gajuph4pre@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-29 01:40 +0200
          Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? Keith Bainbridge <ke1th3216@gmail.com> - 2020-07-29 03:30 +0200
        Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? Keith bainbridge <keithrbau@gmail.com> - 2020-07-29 02:30 +0200
      Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? "gajuph4pre@yahoo.com" <gajuph4pre@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-29 01:40 +0200
    Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? "gajuph4pre@yahoo.com" <gajuph4pre@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-29 01:40 +0200
      Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-07-29 03:40 +0200
        Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? "gajuph4pre@yahoo.com" <gajuph4pre@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-29 05:30 +0200
          Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-07-29 13:40 +0200
            Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? Andrew Cater <amacater@gmail.com> - 2020-07-29 13:50 +0200
              Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? "gajuph4pre@yahoo.com" <gajuph4pre@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-29 15:50 +0200
                Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2020-07-29 16:00 +0200
            Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-07-29 14:40 +0200
            Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-07-29 14:40 +0200
    Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? "gajuph4pre@yahoo.com" <gajuph4pre@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-29 01:40 +0200
      Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-07-29 03:50 +0200
        Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? "gajuph4pre@yahoo.com" <gajuph4pre@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-29 05:40 +0200
          Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-07-29 14:10 +0200
  Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-07-29 08:20 +0200
  Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-07-29 16:00 +0200
    Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? Daniel Barclay <danielbarclay.oss@gmail.com> - 2020-08-10 17:50 +0200
  Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2020-07-29 17:30 +0200
    Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-30 08:20 +0200

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