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geek post — 28 Apr 2003 20:40

Subject: want to make a fuck off data directory shared with everyone but that users can protect their own files

I have two partitions: first partition is 6gb and includes /home ; second partition is 100+gb and has /usr is it just me or is this really dumb? surely /home should be on the big partition as you can only share directories in home and this is where all the data goes

this one's free — 28 Apr 2003 21:57

Subject: Re: want to make a fuck off data directory shared with everyone but that users can protect their own files

have separate partitions for /, /usr, /home, /var this makes upgrades much easier. you can share any directories you like but I would suggest making a directory in home and sharing that as usr contains all your userland programs and libraries (as oppposed to system programs) and you do not want that mixed up with data. if you are sharing with windows machines you will need to use samba - www.samba.org

cheeky geek — 29 Apr 2003 10:01

Subject: Re: Re: want to make a fuck off data directory shared with everyone but that users can protect their own files

indeed and usr standing for "user" is pretty self expanatory ;-)

cheeky geek

i live to reinstall linux — 30 Apr 2003 14:48

Subject: so how much space for each partition?

this one costs — 30 Apr 2003 21:53

Subject: Re: so how much space for each partition?

/ will not never more than 500Mb but why assign less /usr full install of all apps will need a few Gb depends on distro, 5Gb is ample /var if you are running a database or website the files will be stored here so you may want a few Gb otherwise 500Mb - whatever you need (2Gb?) for logs, print spools etc /home this is just data and users personal stuff so assign the rest of the disk

dex — 01 May 2003 11:01

Subject: looks good to me

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