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Re: Error loading operating system



On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:20:02 -0400, Stefan wrote in message 
<jwvab2n5p8a.fsf-monnier+gmane.linux.debian.user@gnu.org>:

> > sda1 /        10Gb

..overkill.

> > sda2 /usr   10Gb

..unless this is a single purpose server, 
you will want much more, e.g. 50G.

> > sda3 /var   10 Gb

..for a server, you want much more, I use 
22G for a lan web server.

> > sda5 swap  1 Gb

..um, you sacrifice speed for safety if you have 
enough swap to capture _everything_ in ram, the 
old rule was 2 times ram.

> > sda6 /tmp   1 Gb
> > sda7 /home the rest of the drive....about 456 Gb

..riiight ;o), enough people has eaten their own 
words "on way too much."  ;oD

> Every one has his favorite partitioning scheme 

..aye. ;o)  A45 was an AMD k6-2 450MHz and it can be argued 
whether the disk moved into a new box or the machine was 
upgraded to a 2 threaded 3.2GHz P4 around the disk... ;o)
arnt@a45:/tmp $ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb14            956M  188M  717M  21% /
tmpfs                1013M  4.0K 1013M   1% /lib/init/rw
udev                 1006M  404K 1006M   1% /dev
tmpfs                1013M  648K 1013M   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             133M   28M   98M  23% /boot
/dev/sda6              16G   13G  2.3G  85% /home
/dev/sda7              29G   26G  2.1G  93% /home/arnt
/dev/sda13            4.0G   67M  3.7G   2% /tmp
/dev/sda8              22G   20G  560M  98% /usr
/dev/sda9             4.7G  2.1G  2.4G  47% /usr/local
/dev/sda10            6.5G  3.4G  2.8G  55% /var
/dev/sda12            5.0G  2.3G  2.5G  49% /var/log
/dev/sda11             22G   19G  1.9G  91% /var/www
arnt@a45:/tmp $ 

> (and prefers or avoids
> LVM), so I won't delve into that, but in my experience, you'd be
> better off adding /tmp's 1GB to the swap and then use tmpfs for /tmp.

..or a combination? ;o)

> You'll get slightly better performance (mostly because tmpfs doesn't
> need to care about preserving a consistent filesystem in case of
> a crash).



-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.


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