on Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:34:13PM -0400, lists1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Here's my partition scheme. Opinion?
> The box is 1.3 Ghz, 128 MB ram, single 13.9 GB hard disk. Planned use, is
> light apache, light bind, light mail server (debian mailing list will be the
> heaviest use). With X and some gui apps (see below).
>
> / 2000 MB too big 64-128 MB.
> /boot 140 MB reasonable (but large 32-64 MB)
> /opt 2000 MB reasonable, (but: consider ln => /usr/local)
> swap 500 MB partitions sized at current (or 2x) RAM to
max allowable
> /tmp 1000 MB IMO too large (video/audio editing might
justify)
> /usr 2000 MB 3GB 4GB if it includes /usr/local
> /var 2000 MB 1-2GB OK Vary as needed w/ large DB
website(s).
> /home 4300+ MB (balance) Make this bigger I see ~5GB you can
allocate.
>
> I read that deb packages take a lot of space under / ,
Nope. /var.
> as opposed to rpm based distros that stick packages in opt and/or usr.
>
> Is 2 GB too much for / ?
Yes.
See:
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html
...which answers most of the remainder of your questions.
Thank you.
> About 3 GB is needed total for the knoppix CD, but I'll be removing
> openoffice, games, and some other packages. YES, I KNOW, this isn't knoppix
> list, but I'm using knoppix to install debian.
>
> Should tmp be this large or larger? This box has my cd burner (never got it
> working on my desktop). I'll be downloading and burning iso images, so
> figure 700 MB+ dowloads, mkisofs, etc. And I might be transferring large
> tar'd files for backup to the cd burner also, that's why I made tmp 1 GB.
> Does this sound right?
>
> Also, one more consideration. Plannning on running bind/apache/mail server on
> this box, backup second box with larger drive will run same (for backup only)
> and will be the main database server. On the bind/apache/mail box with the
> partitioning scheme above, should I make the directory where the apache web
> site files are larger, and home much smaller? If I remember correctly,
> that's usr/local/apache/htdocs/* on suse, so user would be made larger, or is
> it easy enough to put web site docs in home/* directories, and link to them
> from the apache config file?
>
> I checked the how-tos, the debian docs, some web sites, other usenet posts,
> and more. I can't add another hard drive. I was using just a couple
> partitions, / swap, home, boot, to save space, but was asked by friend
> whose going to administer bind to re-install, with more partions, because I
> need var for mail server on separate partition so spam doesn't take the whole
> box down, plus more partitions for recovery and other reasons.
>
> I was also asked to reinstall because I apt-get upgraded, and he would prefer
> running stable, or stable to testing, as opposed to testing to unstable like
> the knoppix disk is laid out, so that security updates can be run nightly
> without breaking things under unstable, as he indicated has happened to him
> on occasion in the past.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated. I'll be running the services mentioned,
> non-critical, and at the same time experimenting with debian. The gui/X apps
> are needed, as I'm still weak on the command line. I'll be removing
> openoffice and other gui apps, but still need gvim, kde/konqueror fish
> protocol (can't get scp to work sometimes on my complicated lan setup, can't
> figure it out).
>
> Sorry for not shortening this post, but on the couple of other places I've
> posted, I get the third degree on WHY am I partitioning, WHY so many, etc. I
> don't need that, just some advice if the numbers above are in the ballpark,
> or if I'm overkilling / for example, or any other tip you can help with.
>
> A big thanks in advance!
>
> Bing.
>
>
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