Re: Partitioning Scheme
On Oct 25, 1:10 am, "Javier Vasquez" <jevv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm about to install a new Debian system. Previously what I've done
> is to create 3 partitions (/, /boot, swap), but now that I have the
> oporttunity, I'd like to do things differently. I was reading the
> Debian reference guide (the security part), and also openBsd
> partitioning schemes, and they both agree that having specific storage
> areas in different isolated sections (partitions in this case), would
> help a lot for security reasons, so that for example a section won't
> grow beyond its limits (inhibiting other pieces of the system to
> operate correctly), and also some speed reasons are argued as well,
> :)...
>
> Well, The following scheme is proposed (from what I read btoh from
> openBsd and Debian reference guide):
>
> Partition Suggested Size (openBsd)
>
> / 150 M
> /usr 6 G
> /var 80 M
> /tmp 120 M
> /home 4 G
> /boot
> /opt
>
> /usr/local
> /usr/src 4 G <= Source compilation oriented.
> /var/log 150 M
> /var/tmp 1 G
> /var/www
> /var/mail
>
> /var/spool/mail
> /var/cache/apt
>
> However I'm not sure about those numbers, and besides there's no clear
> size for ALL targets. Is there some other documentation around with
> sizes suggestions? I understand this, like anything else is, "well,
> it depends"... My intention is to install a web/mail/printer/...
> server, multiuser, and I also want users to still be able to keep
> multimedia at their homes, and I want a secure scheme as possible as
> well, etc. I count with a 180 G...
>
> Any suggestions, specially to fill in the sizes, would be helpful.
> Notice my previous approaches would consist on a 500M /boot, a 1G swap
> (the box has 512M ram), and ~6.5G /, but I want to change that, :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Javier
Although it's not always recommended to have / on a LVM, I have
successfully
used three partitions on my systems:
/boot
LVM Group
swap
and then create in the LVM all of the other partitions I want. Then,
if needed, it's
easy to change the size of any partition if I had the initial size
wrong.
Stuart
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