On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > hi ya marco > > On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 04:41, Marco Cecconi wrote: > > > Hello, I've been having this question on my mind for a bit now: what is > > > the best practice to partition a hard drive under Unix, and in > > > particular under Linux? At work I try to separate different > > > functionalities as much as possible (eg. /boot, /, /var, /home all on > > > different partitions). This makes sense since the machines are servers. > > > What is your experience regarding workstations? Is there any advantage > > > or disadvantage in using a simpler partitioning (eg. only /boot and /)? > > > > The whole subject is less critical now, but here's how I do it: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hda3 7874560 150520 7324024 3% / > > /dev/hda2 46668 2871 41388 7% /boot > > /dev/hda5 7874528 1770332 5704180 24% /usr > > /dev/hda6 7874528 708628 6765884 10% /var > > /dev/hda7 7874528 668568 6805944 9% /home > > /dev/hda8 86573816 862620 81313404 2% /data > > it doesnt matter if its a server or workstation ... > "partition scheme" should be independent of its function > ( yes, /var/spool/mail might be bigger on mail servers > ( yes, /var/www ( aka /home/http ) is bigger on web servers > but the number of partitions is the same > > > /tmp should be its own partition because: > you should ( require to ) do "chmod 1777 /tmp" > > > /boot is NOT needed ... > - /boot was needed in the old days to guarantee that the > boot kernel was occupying the 1st 1024 cylinders > > / - should be as small as possible > so that you can always do e2fsck on it and boot into single user > > - if you only have / and "swap", than your entire 100GB or 200GB > has to be e2fsck clean in order to get into single user mode > to fix whatever the problem was > > <swap> you want a swap partition so that if some silly apps uses > up all your memory, the system can start doing disk swap > and keep going ( really slow ) vs crashing/dying > > /home all user data goes shere and occupys the rest of the disks > > only /home and /etc is backed up .. rest of the partitons > can be reformated and you shouldn't care since its > all backed up on the net someplace or on original cdroms > > /usr/local might be good to keep(symlink) at /home/local > for more user installed modifications > > lots of various reasons for doing lots of various partitions schemes Hi, if you have lots of logs - web server, mail server - it might make sense to have a /var/log partition. Also, APT-get puts packages in /var/cache/apt/archive and maybe put that is a partition. my 2 yen. -Kev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]