Re: Partitioning Advice
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:49:19PM -0600, John Purser 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
too big 100mb
> /boot 60 Megs
10mb
> /home 1 Gig
16 gigs
> /usr 16 Gigs
2 gigs
> /var 1 Gig
fine, unless you want a squid cache.
> /tmp 1 Gig
none, don't make one
> /swap 500 Megs
Plenty, though I'd use about 300 or so at the max...
I symlink /tmp to /home/tmp, and run tmpreaper on my /tmp. Instead of
deleting, I just move it over to /tmp, and leave it there until tmpreaper
cleans up after me. It's kinda like a manual recycle bin.
You should run with a read only /usr, for security reasons, especially since
it is also a firewall. Don't run your compiles in /usr. If you don't want
a bin /home make a big /usr/local...
Mike
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