ernie@calvin.edu (Ernest D. Brouwer) (06/15/90)
I have a SPARCstation1+ with a 104M internal disk and a 669M external SCSI
disk that I am begining to install for one of my users. Is there any
wisdom you people could pass on to me so I can arrive at an optimal
partitioning given the following desires?
1. The owner of this machine is willing to share it (put it on the net
for student use) if he can be assured of the majority of disk space and
CPU.
2. There are a number of software packages that will be loaded.
3. We desire to keep the operating system software as seperate from the
added software so that upgrades, etc., are more cleanly done.
I have thought of the following scenario:
sd0a = 8M --> /
sd0b = 16M --> (swap)
sd0d = whatever --> /var to keep it off the root partition.
sd0g = 60M --> /usr SunOS and other things closely tied to it.
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104M (give or take some overhead)
sd3f = whatever --> /home/theowner
sd3g = 100M --> /usr/local/apps
sd3h = 100M --> /home
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669M (give or take)
What is wrong with that configuration? I am concerned about the mounts on
mounts (/home/theowner on /home) and wonder if there is any optimization
that can be done. Also what does it matter if I use sd3a sd3b sd3c on the
second disk besides violation of the traditional nomenclature?
Thanks much in advance.
Ernie Brouwer