Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD Thanks
Thanks to all. I'm going to print out the Partitioning mini-faq, as it
answers some other questions, and I'll use the examples for suid, remount,
and others in fstab and elsewhere. I did look at it last night, among a lot
of other docs/posts, but the date and small partition sizes threw me a bit.
I'm starting with a knoppix install (and moving to debian), and need bigger
partitions, or the install just exits (at least that's what it does when it
hits other problems).
I've adjusted as follows, but I doubt this will be the final setup:
/ 1 GB (may go a few hundred MB smaller)
/boot 100 MB (Reiser FS requires larger size than ext2/3, according to
messages on suse installations, disallowing smaller sizes)
/opt 500 MB hope this is big enough to squeeze knoppix on.
/tmp 800 MB
/usr 3 GB
/var 2760 MB
/home 5240 MB
swap 500 MB Is this enough for dealing with 700 MB iso images?
Luckily, this box has the smallest drive. Now if I could only squeeze
debian/apache on to that 270 MB hard disk sitting in the corner for another
box...
Thanks again.
Bing.
On Wednesday 04 June 2003 16:32, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:34:13PM -0400, lists1 (lists1@pilosoft.net)
wrote:
> > 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 too big 64-128 MB.
> > /boot 140 MB reasonable (but large 32-64 MB)
> > /opt 2000 MB reasonable, (but: consider ln => /usr/local)
> > swap 500 MB partitions sized at current (or 2x) RAM to
>
> max allowable
>
> > /tmp 1000 MB IMO too large (video/audio editing might
>
> justify)
>
> > /usr 2000 MB 3GB 4GB if it includes /usr/local
> > /var 2000 MB 1-2GB OK Vary as needed w/ large DB
>
> website(s).
>
> > /home 4300+ MB (balance) Make this bigger I see ~5GB you can
>
> allocate.
>
> > I read that deb packages take a lot of space under / ,
>
> Nope. /var.
>
> > as opposed to rpm based distros that stick packages in opt and/or usr.
> >
> > Is 2 GB too much for / ?
>
> Yes.
>
> See:
>
> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html
>
> ...which answers most of the remainder of your questions.
>
> Thank you.
>
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > --
> > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
> > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact
> > listmaster@lists.debian.org
Reply to: