Re: Partitioning hard drives
I won't attempt to tell you just how big each partition should be or on
which drive you should locate it, but a fairly standard and secure
configuration for hard disk partitioning would be to put each of the
following in its own partition:
/
swap
/boot
/home
/tmp
/var
/usr
Not everyone agrees that /boot needs its own partition anymore. It had
more to do with the fact that in ancient times there was a requirement
that /boot be in the first 1024 cylinders, but that limitation no longer
exists.
If you plan to create an encrypted partition sometime in the future
(perhaps /secret), you ought to allocate space for it. Encrypted
partititions shouldn't be too large, since that hinders performance. I
have one 650MB in size, and it's adequate for my needs (I chose that
size because I want to back up the data to a CDR). You can create more
than one encrypted partition if you like.
regards,
Robert
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:06:24 +0000
Bob <bob@bobarnott.com> wrote:
> Hello list, I've read the section in the install manual about
> recommended partitioning schemes, but thought I would also see what
> the collective wisdom has to say on the matter.
>
> I've got two machines, one's a desktop and the others a server, I'm
> getting broadband shortly and would like the server to host a web
> server and mail server. It will also be running a firewall so that the
> desktop can connect to the broadband connection via the server.
>
> The server has two IDE drives (60Gb & 40Gb) and four SCSI drives
> (73Gb) in it; I intend to use RAID with the SCSI drives but haven't
> decided on a mode yet, although I'm leaning to 01 (stripping and
> replication).
>
> I've read that it's best to put certain volumes in their own
> partitions, i.e. the mail spool, to limit certain types of attack, but
> I'm still unsure of how to go about distributing the partitions over
> all the disks.
>
> The server is a dual PIII 500Mhz with 750Mb RAM running on a Chaintech
> 6BDU with a zero channel Adaptec ARO-1130U2 RAIDPort III card. This
> box was running Woody from a single 9.1Gb SCSI drive, before I added
> the 73Gb drives and the RAID card.
>
> I'm intending on putting Sarge on it and don't mind reinstalling a
> number of times to try things out.
>
> So I'd like to know if this box was yours, how would you partition the
> disks...? Are there any documents other than the ones referenced by
> the Debian Install Guide on how you should partition a Servers
> disks...?
>
> Thanks,
>
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