[NTLUG:Discuss] Discuss Digest, Vol 67, Issue 16

[goodtimetribe]

> On a multi user system providing multiple services I do agree, on a
> single (or two) user
> desktop system I feel this is just overkill and possibly a little
> overwhelming for someone
> who just recently decided to try Linux.
>
> Output from df -h on my box that has been running for over two years.
> Can't imagine how you are filling it up. Even if I had not created a
> /var partition my / would still be less then 50%.
> [raw at morpheus:~]df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1             9.7G  3.5G  5.7G  39% /
> /dev/hda8              61G   37G   24G  62% /home
> /dev/hda7              20G  838M   18G   5% /var
>
>
I disagree. Correctly partitioning your drive can have some rather
significant benefits in the long run, and I think care should be taken when
introducing linux to potential users. To heck with overkill, here's mine:

Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdd1     ext3    7.4G  2.9G  4.3G  40% /
/dev/sdd2     ext3    3.7G  109M  3.5G   4% /boot
/dev/sdd4     ext3    134G  115G   12G  91% /edrv
/dev/sdc3     ext3    452G  404G   25G  95% /home
/dev/sdd3     ext3    3.7G   72M  3.5G   2% /opt
/dev/sdc1     ext3    9.3G  1.4G  7.5G  16% /var
/dev/sda1     ext3    187G  8.8G  169G   5% /xdrive
/dev/sdb1     ext3     38G   24G   13G  65% /cbackup

You can already guess I'm disappointed that Ubuntu limits us from placing
/etc/ on its own partition.

Joshua K