partitioning new installation

[Walter Dnes]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 04:07:46PM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote
> Can anyone suggest a partitioning scheme for a new FC4 installation? 
> Every time I make a bunch of partitions I end up with too much free 
> space on some and not enough on others (notably /usr and /home).
> 
> Master is 20 GB and slave is 6 GB. I think I'll partition the slave as 
> /backupdrive -- that's worked well for me on another machine - .jpg's, 
> .ogg's et al.

  I don't know if this is even possible, but the best bet might be...

/boot   first 50 megs on the MASTER
/       the entire 6 gigs on the SLAVE
/var    2 gigs on MASTER
swap    1 or 2 gigs on MASTER
/home   the rest of MASTER

  I put miscellaneous stuff in /home/misc

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