on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:49:19PM -0600, John Purser (jmpurser2@home.com) 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. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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