Re: Disk partitioning - recommended sizes
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Matt Kracht wrote:
> You might want something like the following:
>
> 50MB /
> 100MB /var
> 250MB /var/spool
> 250MB /tmp
> 500MB /usr
> 750MB /usr/local
> 100MB swap
My $0.02: you're not going to win any _performance_ wars by making more
partitions, particularly if you don't have many separate drives to put
them on. A few things should factor into your decisions:
/ should be small, for best reliability. (YMMV, mine is
/dev/hda1 19485 10257 8222 56% /)
You'll only get this small if /usr, /var, and /home are anywhere else
(even if they're all in one partition).
Your apps (/usr) may want to write to their logfiles (/var) while they
read your files (/home). If they're in different partitions (particularly
if you also split /usr/local and /var/spool), your poor disk arm is going
to earn its keep.
My suggestion?
20M /
500M /usr
100M /var
(the rest) /local (or whatever)
Make the following symlinks:
/tmp -> /local/tmp (unless you might share this drive via NFS)
/home -> /local/home
/usr/local -> /local/usr
/var/spool -> /local/spool (again, if using NFS, you should break this
down - talk to me individually)
Here's my server:
% df
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda1 19485 10257 8222 56% /
/dev/hda2 223494 146905 65048 69% /usr
/dev/hdc3 198123 12324 175568 7% /var
/dev/hdc4 288354 3809 269652 1% /tmp
/dev/hda3 560060 8107 523024 2% /nfs
/dev/hdb1 2990073 1559445 1276003 55% /server
%
I'm still learning myself. I rarely see /tmp in use at all. /nfs for me
is /local as listed above, and /server is my 3.1G for my debian mirror and
a few other services that I provide.
--Pete
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Peter J. Templin, Jr. Client Services Analyst
Computer & Communication Services tel: (717) 524-1590
Bucknell University templin@bucknell.edu
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