[KLUG Members] Disk partition

[Bryan-TheBS-Smith]

Scott Thurmond wrote:
> I have a 20Gb drive that I run Linux on.  Is there a performance
> reason to carve the disk up into
> /
> /home
> /usr
> /var
> /tmp
> /...
> Is it acceptable to have just a swap partition and a "/" partition?
> And on the subject of swap space, is the general rule to create a swap space
> 1.5 times the amount of RAM in the machine?

I documented my methodical approach in this E-mail back in November:
http://www.matrixlist.com/pipermail/leaplist/2001-November/015760.html

You should _always_ "strive" to separate out /var and /tmp.  They create
and delete lots of little files regularly so they'll fragment quite
easily.  I've seen people get frustrated trying to figure out why their
disk is "full" when they are only using 37% of their data blocks.  A
quick "df -i" shows that they've used 100% of their inodes and 9 times
out of 10 its the /var directory who is the culprit.

If you really want to minimize your number of partitions, separate out
/var and use a symlink to /var/tmp from /tmp.

-- TheBS

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