lists1 said on Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:34:13PM -0400: > 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 > /boot 140 MB > /opt 2000 MB > swap 500 MB > /tmp 1000 MB > /usr 2000 MB > /var 2000 MB > /home 4300+ MB (balance) > > I read that deb packages take a lot of space under / , > as opposed to rpm based distros that stick packages in opt and/or usr. Don't know where you got that idea. My boxes have 1GB in / and 2GB in /usr, and I'm using ~ 150MB in / and ~650MB in /usr. However, for a desktop box, having a seperate /usr can cause trouble (some packages are a little buggy and don't work when /usr is on a seperate partition... the only one I've encountered is discover, so it's a pretty small number).
> 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? <shrug> Sounds okay to me. I usually leave /tmp on /, and use /var/tmp instead, but that's just me: if you've got a lot of potentiall hostile users, /tmp on it's own partition is vital. > 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? You can use the apache configuration to put the htdocs directory wherever you want, so it doesn't really matter. M
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