I won't attempt to tell you just how big each partition should be or on which drive you should locate it, but a fairly standard and secure configuration for hard disk partitioning would be to put each of the following in its own partition:
/ swap /boot /home /tmp /var /usr Not everyone agrees that /boot needs its own partition anymore. It had more to do with the fact that in ancient times there was a requirement that /boot be in the first 1024 cylinders, but that limitation no longer exists. If you plan to create an encrypted partition sometime in the future (perhaps /secret), you ought to allocate space for it. Encrypted partititions shouldn't be too large, since that hinders performance. I have one 650MB in size, and it's adequate for my needs (I chose that size because I want to back up the data to a CDR). You can create more than one encrypted partition if you like. regards, Robert On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:06:24 +0000 Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, I've read the section in the install manual about > recommended partitioning schemes, but thought I would also see what > the collective wisdom has to say on the matter. > > I've got two machines, one's a desktop and the others a server, I'm > getting broadband shortly and would like the server to host a web > server and mail server. It will also be running a firewall so that the > desktop can connect to the broadband connection via the server. > > The server has two IDE drives (60Gb & 40Gb) and four SCSI drives > (73Gb) in it; I intend to use RAID with the SCSI drives but haven't > decided on a mode yet, although I'm leaning to 01 (stripping and > replication). > > I've read that it's best to put certain volumes in their own > partitions, i.e. the mail spool, to limit certain types of attack, but > I'm still unsure of how to go about distributing the partitions over > all the disks. > > The server is a dual PIII 500Mhz with 750Mb RAM running on a Chaintech > 6BDU with a zero channel Adaptec ARO-1130U2 RAIDPort III card. This > box was running Woody from a single 9.1Gb SCSI drive, before I added > the 73Gb drives and the RAID card. > > I'm intending on putting Sarge on it and don't mind reinstalling a > number of times to try things out. > > So I'd like to know if this box was yours, how would you partition the > disks...? Are there any documents other than the ones referenced by > the Debian Install Guide on how you should partition a Servers > disks...? > > Thanks, > > -- > Bob > http://www.bobarnott.com/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---"Lager is an imitation Continental beer drunk only by refined > ladies, > people with digestive ailments, tourists, and other weaklings." > - Munchen Süddeutsche > Zeitung > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
