Partition Size

[John]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 01:43:35AM +0100, Oliver Leitner wrote:
> i dont see the /usr in your calculations...

That is actually consistent with his source.  Greg Lehey's recommendation
is to not separate root and /usr.

> aside of that...
> 
> it really depends on what youre going to do with the system, or which data 
> its going to be holding...
> 
> this is absolutely subjective, cant tell you as long as i dont get any 
> further data on the probably size of your data, and where theyll be stored...

Exactly.  For people who are running a database, or a web server,
or developing code, some or all of this projects may warrant their
own file systems.

There may be other things you want to do, too.  I actually like to
put /usr/src and /usr/obj in filesystems different from /usr, but
that's just me.  In fact, I like to keep /usr static to the greatest
degress possible.  So, if it was my system, I'd set it up with
those additional filesystems.

In your specific case, maybe you want a separate /pictures filesystem,
or a filesystem that you would mount as /home/your-login/pictures
or something like that.

Or - maybe you don't even want to use it all.  Leave it "uncarved"
for future filesystems as yet unthoughtof.
-- 

John Lind
john at starfire.MN.ORG