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Title: Partitions: Distribution of filesystems

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Partitions: Distribution of filesystems

Applies to
S.u.S.E. version: all
Kernel version: all

This should be seen as an example.

For a normal installation:

one partition for / with 80 to 100 MB
one partition for swap with 16 to 64 MB
one partition for /usr with 400 to 600 MB (more when choosing Premium in YaST)
one partition for /home with 20 to ??? MB per user

For server installation

one partition for / with 40 to 60 MB
one or two partitions for swap with 32 to 64 MB
one partition for /tmp with 80 to 100 MB
one partition for /var with 40 to 80 MB
one partition for /var/spool/mail with 5 to ?? MB per user
one partition for /var/spool/news with 100 to ??? MB depending on news traffic
one partition for /httpd with 40 MB to ??? MB depending on the number of WWW pages
one partition for /usr with 400 to 600 MB (more when choosing Premium in YaST)
one partition for /home with 20 to ??? MB per User

The order is important. This means the order in the file /ets/fstab represents the order in which these partitions will be mounted.

See also:

Mounting, partitioning and configuring filesystems

Linux and Windows NT

Installing Linux,DOS,Windows,WindowsNT onto one hard disk

OS/2, Linux and invalid partition tables

Changing the partitions of your Linux distribution

Keywords: FILESYSTEM, PARTITION, FORMAT, FDISK, INSTALLATION, FSTAB, FILESYSTEM

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