On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 13:54 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner wrote: > Johnny Voice wrote: > > For my asterisk installation in my lab, I will install the Linux ES v4 > > distribution (with kernel 2.6) onto a Dell Power Edge 1650 with ~16GB of > > Raid-1 hard disk space. > > > > Before installing Linux, what should I set the following disk partitions > > to?: > > (root)/ > > /boot > > swap > > /usr > > /home > > /tmp > > /var > > > > The Dell boot up disk (i.e. the Dell OpenManage disk, Configure Hard > > Drive section), shows this as the default: > > (root)/ 1024MB > > /boot 100MB > > swap 2048MB > > /usr 5726MB > > /home 3547MB > > /tmp 512MB > > /var 512MB > > > > Do you think I should do something like this? > > (root)/ 512MB > > /boot 100MB > > swap 2048MB > > /usr 10000MB > > /home 2282MB > > /tmp 256MB > > /var 2057MB > > > > Thanks. > > > > Tom > > Tom, > > For an Asterisk server, /var will grow the most (by default). You > should make that your largest partition, or use symlinks or some other > way to change the things that make /var grow (voicemail, CDR's, etc).
If you need > 5Gb on /usr then you're installing an awful lot of things you don't need. Don't see why you need to allocate anything to /home itself. You don't need a gig for / either, your adjustments look better. This is one of my * boxes running RHEL4 :- Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda8 487M 231M 231M 51% / /dev/sda1 99M 17M 78M 18% /boot none 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda7 487M 11M 451M 3% /tmp /dev/sda2 4.9G 2.1G 2.5G 46% /usr /dev/sda6 487M 107M 355M 24% /var /dev/mapper/vg001-lvlog 2G 19M 1.9G 1% /var/log /dev/mapper/vg001-lvast 20G 1.1GM 18.9G 6% /var/spool/asterisk This box actually has a lot installed that isn't required, but as you can see you don't need that much space for usr etc. I used LVM for the partitions likely to grow so I can always allocate more space to them if I need to at a future date. Rgds Pete _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users