[TLUG] How to determine the partition space ?

[Tony Laszlo]

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Nazareth Shu wrote:
> 	I'd like to know how to arrange disk space for the directory of different partition.
> Following partition table is my plan to do:
> 
> 	2 GB HD Space for Linux:
> 	Partition			Space(MB)
> 	------------		------------
> 	/			?
> 	/usr			?
> 	/usr/local			?
> 	/home			?
> 	/var			?
> 	swap			127
> 
> 	/tmp -----> /home/tmp	- Symbolic Link
> 	/var/tmp -----> /home/tmp	- Symbolic Link
>

I recommend that you do an install first, then after 
it is completed run the "df" command. Record that 
information and use it as a guideline for adjusting 
your partition size with fdisk or cfdisk. 

/usr 
is the place where much of your applications will 
be installed, particularly if the installation is 
automated as with turbolinux, redhat, debian, etc. 
(not sure about debian, but assume it's the same). 
/usr/local 
is the place where much of the applications you 
install manually will end up. 
/var 
can get very large if you have a lot of users' 
mail coming in and even larger if the users are 
getting newsgroup messages. 
/home 
is the place that you want to maintain so that 
when you reinstall software it remains, keeping 
you personal data intact. Make sure you don't 
format this partition when you install a new 
OS :) 
/tmp
Personally, I don't see the merit in linking 
this to /home/tmp . If you are unlucky enough 
to have run out of space for /tmp, maybe, but 
even then I think you can find a better place 
to link to, e.g. /usr/local (if it is big 
enough). 

Here is the output of the df command on a  
system which is running Turbolinux 4.0 
on a bit more than 2G. 


Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6               101471     53524     42707  56% /
/dev/hda10               27291     23435      2447  91% /home
/dev/hda15             1201695    980128    159476  86% /usr
/dev/hda12              152215     68834     75521  48% /usr/local
/dev/hda8                46815     31278     13120  70% /var