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From: curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt J. Sampson)
Subject: Partitioning a Hard Disk
Organization: Mad Artists' Technological Hangout
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1991 18:54:30 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.185430.2443@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca>
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin
Sender: curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt J. Sampson)

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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