What kind of partition structure do you guys use in Red Hat?

[EmperorRob]

One of the Red Hat books I have suggests 6 partitions for an install.

1. /
2. /usr
3. /var
4. /home
5. /usr/local
6. swap partition

What do you guys think?

 

[sciencewhiz]

That is overkill for a home system. In fact, it may even hurt you if the partitions aren't made the right sizes.

For a home system, all you need is a / partition and a swap partition.

 

[EmperorRob]

And that's what I'm thinking, too. It's just a 15GB drive.

 

[Kadesh]

I have 6 partitions (/, swap, boot, usr, var, home). I did it that way so it would be easier to go to ReiserFS later (hard to find the time/energy). This is a 20GB drive btw.

 

[reicherb]

I use / swap /var /usr.

 

[DaHitman]

After using Linux for about 7 years now... Here is what I find works best...

1) /
2) swap
3) /home
4) /usr/local


What I do is install Linux into the / partition.... which about 4-6 Gig seems to do the trick...
and then I use a separate /home and /usr/local...


I actually usally have a few different linux's installed at any one time so all I have to do is create another / partition and then share /home and /usr/local paritions among all the installs... that way anything "extra" I install will be availabe between all my installs..

This also makes "upgrading" easier since you can upgrade but keep all the stuff that is yours inbetween installs...like email and things in your /home directory and any software you installed/wrote in /usr/local..

It just makes it very easy to install/re-install/upgrade etc... and manage to keep all your customizations.

 

[EmperorRob]

Yeah, that's what I'm wondering. I was thinking

1. /
2. swap
3. /home

I was thinking /home so I could partition the / w/out affecting my personal files. I want what would be easiest to update, so what do you think for a 15 GB drive?

 

[goshdarnindie]

I'm with EmporerRob

/
/home
/swap

Then your done

 

[EmperorRob]

I really do like Hitman's idea of a separate partition for usr/local, but i don't know if I'll have enough room. 15G -5 for / -4 for /home -256mb for swap -5 for /usr/local = 15GB

Think that's enough?

 

[goshdarnindie]

Definetly. I am running Linux and StarOffice plus Apache on 2GBs.

 

[EmperorRob]

One last question guys. Where should I install Lilo?

1. /
2. /home
3. /usr/local

I want Lilo to be the default loader. I have no other OS's running on this machine.

 

[DaHitman]

In the master boot record of course silly... You have to have SOME sort of of boot loader there... and if you are only running LILO...well then its either the MBR or you dont boot.

 

[EmperorRob]

Right; wanted to make sure. I like the idea of having multiple kernels and using LILO to choose them.