Ok, well I'm not sure if I want to redo ALL the partitions.. if I
deleted /home, couldn't I just create /var and /home to the sizes I
want? This way I wouldn't have to reconfigure everything.. this only has
an IDE HD and is for ~700 users, but it is actually a test machine. If
my boss likes the way it hand;es mail, we will put it on our PII 233 w/
4gb scsi HD and 128 megs ram..
On Thu, 14 May 1998, Chuck Carson wrote:
|
|Make a symbolic link called /var/spool/mail that points
|to /home or some directory beneath home. If you go ahead
|and redo all your partitions anyways, for a mail server I would
|make a 200 MB partition for the system and the rest for the
|mail file system. Also, 128 MB swap is probably to much. I
|maintained a mail server once that had only a 32 meg swap,
|64 meg ram, and a pentium 133 cpu. It handled the load for
|7000 dial-up customers easily, However, the one area that
|will generate a bottleneck is the disk system. I would recommend
|nothing less than UW SCSI and only quality disks. If this server
|is going to see any serious action, I would definitely look at some
|RAID controllers.
|
|Good luck,
|
|WC
|
|Also, you can build sendmail (I assume you are using sendmail) to use
|any directory for the mail files. I believe /var/spool/mail has been the
|adopted standard and is used in all precompiled binaries.
|
|-----Original Message-----
|From: GateKeepeR News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|To: Redhat List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|Date: Thursday, May 14, 1998 4:25 PM
|Subject: partitions?
|
|
|>Hello,
|>I have 4 partitions as follows:
|>
|>/ = 100mb
|>/home = 1gb
|>/usr = 600mb
|>swap = 128mb
|>
|>This is a mail server, so I am guessing I screwed up and made the
|>partitions the wrong size. mailboxes reside in /var/spool/mail/ if I am
|>not mistaken. So I will most likely run out of room very quickly. Any
|>ideas here as what I could do? I would have no problem killing the /home
|>partition to redo things.. Thanks..
|>
|> Bryan
|>
|>
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