on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:49:19PM -0600, John Purser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm installing Debian Woody as the only OS on an IBM PC with a 20 gig > hard drive, 192 megs of ram, and two Ethernet cards. This machine > will be my network gateway and provide DNS, DHCP, Web, and database > service for my small network. Not a lot of users and not a lot of > data. I'm a programmer who just wants a test network to play with. > The partition scheme I'm considering is:
> / 243 Megs # Biggish, but not overly.
> /boot 60 Megs
> /home 1 Gig <-+
| I'd swap these, and give /usr/ about 2-3 GB.
> /usr 16 Gigs <-+
> /var 1 Gig
> /tmp 1 Gig # Way biggish. 250 MB should be plenty.
> /swap 500 Megs # Biggish, not overly.
>
> Given the resources and purpose of this machine can anyone see
> anything wrong with this? I haven't found a lot of hard do's and
> don'ts when it comes to partitioning so I copied this from a machine
> that has Red Hat installed and then added the /tmp partition and
> bumped the /var to handle large logs. Then I cut the /home down
> drastically and dumped the rest into /usr.
>
> Suggestions? Comments? Raucous laughter at my expense?
Depends on what you're serving on this puppy. If you put a lot of data,
or a squid proxy (highly recommended) on the box, you may want to
increase either /var or /home, depending on where you park data.
Simple truth is that 20GB is so overkill for this purpose that you're
not really going to go wrong.
My general suggestions:
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html
Cheers.
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