Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD
Here's my partition scheme. Opinion?
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.
Is 2 GB too much for / ?
About 3 GB is needed total for the knoppix CD, but I'll be removing
openoffice, games, and some other packages. YES, I KNOW, this isn't knoppix
list, but I'm using knoppix to install debian.
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?
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?
I checked the how-tos, the debian docs, some web sites, other usenet posts,
and more. I can't add another hard drive. I was using just a couple
partitions, / swap, home, boot, to save space, but was asked by friend
whose going to administer bind to re-install, with more partions, because I
need var for mail server on separate partition so spam doesn't take the whole
box down, plus more partitions for recovery and other reasons.
I was also asked to reinstall because I apt-get upgraded, and he would prefer
running stable, or stable to testing, as opposed to testing to unstable like
the knoppix disk is laid out, so that security updates can be run nightly
without breaking things under unstable, as he indicated has happened to him
on occasion in the past.
Any advice would be appreciated. I'll be running the services mentioned,
non-critical, and at the same time experimenting with debian. The gui/X apps
are needed, as I'm still weak on the command line. I'll be removing
openoffice and other gui apps, but still need gvim, kde/konqueror fish
protocol (can't get scp to work sometimes on my complicated lan setup, can't
figure it out).
Sorry for not shortening this post, but on the couple of other places I've
posted, I get the third degree on WHY am I partitioning, WHY so many, etc. I
don't need that, just some advice if the numbers above are in the ballpark,
or if I'm overkilling / for example, or any other tip you can help with.
A big thanks in advance!
Bing.
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