curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt J. Sampson) (03/27/91)
I have a 125 MB hard disk that I am dedicating to Xenix on my system.
I was wondering if I could get some advice on the best way to
partition it. I'm currently using three partitions, which look like
Mount Dir Filesystem blocks used free %used iused ifree %iused
/ /dev/root 66718 58404 8314 88% 3350 4986 40%
/usr/spool /dev/spool 108626 34204 74422 31% 6236 15764 28%
/u /dev/u 50000 20092 29908 40% 1445 4795 23%
(This is not complete. I also have a 2 MB swap partition, a small
recover partition, and a 15 MB DOS partition, which I will be deleting
and reusing for Xenix.)
I definitely need more room in my root. I've been running news for
over a week, and my longest expire is 6 days, so I don't expect too
much growth in my spool partition. I think that giving it 55000
blocks would probably be plenty. I've been thinking about creating a
seperate partition for /tmp, and perhaps for /usr/tmp as well.
Does anybody have any suggestions as to what I should do here? Would
it be better to just put root and /u in the same partition? I
definitely want a seperate /usr/spool so that if somebody decides to
uucp me their entire disk it won't hurt anything.
Any advice is welcomed. I will summarise my mail responses. Any
posted followups should go to comp.unix.admin.
cjs
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