/tmp and /boot

[Gabriel2010]

Hello All!

Generally, say on a sizable HD of about 20 GB, how big should thr /tmp and /boot partitions be?
I have a pretty good idea about /usr,/swap and /var; not quite sure about the former ones.
Thanks!

Gabriel

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[jaymzter]

currently my /boot is sized for 50MB, but only about 6MB are currently used, that's with grub and 3 different kernels sitting there.

/tmp is what you make it. You didn't say how many users you'll be having or any other uses you might have for it. On big disks I really don't see the advantage of running multiple partitions unless it's a production system, in which case you'd want something like /var on it's own partition. If it's a limited number of users I'd just make / and /home.

 

[Gabriel2010]

Hello
It will be a Bugzilla system with MySQL, Apache. Pretty much have sorted what will be assigned & what partitions will exist, but the /tmp is something I'm not quite sure.
Read that it is the "system-wide temporary space" and if not created separately it will be included in the root partition, which will be subject to the same conditions as the rest of your root drive, specially if mounting the root as read-only. Was thinking 500 -1024 MBs.
Thanks again!



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