plb@omsvax.UUCP (Phil Barrett) (02/16/84)
.<--- raid I've seen a fare amount of info lately about partitioning of big disks (for things like back up efficiency, etc) but I haven't seen much about what people do with smaller disks. How are people handling disks under 100M, 50M, 30M (to use some arbitrary numbers)? Since its likely that we will be supporting a fair numner of different disks, I am quite interested in what others have done. Here are my guesses as to reasonable, 'general purpose' partitioning: disk size root usr1 usr2 usr3 --------------------------------------------- 0-20 Mb all - - - 20-40 Mb 5-10Mb rest - - 40-80 Mb 10-15Mb rest/2 rest/2 - 80-120 Mb 10-20Mb rest/3 rest/3 rest/3 rest means that which is left over after root is allocated. ok,ok, make the first line "less than 20Mb". The usr directory in the <20Mb case would actually reside in the root partition. I also realize that a user may have some special requirements that would require larger (or smaller) partitions. One which comes to mind is DBMS stuff. Any comments? I will be glad to sumarize and post. Phil Barrett Intel Corp. hplabs!intelca!omsvax!plb tektronix!ogcvax!inteloa!omsvax!plb