On Mar 21, 2007, at 3:28 PM, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:

At work we tend toward:

/       8GB
/boot   256MB
/var    2GB
/tmp    2GB
swap    2GB

The lack of a separate /home is because all of our home directories are NFS-mounted from the "home" server.

Having read the rest of the thread, I'd suggest for a "base" VM (i.e., do a Debian base install plus ssh/sshd) in:

/       2GB
/boot   256MB
/var    2GB
/home   512MB
/tmp    512MB
swap    512MB

I'm never sure how to really handle swap in a VM. It's hard as hell on the VM and the host, and if you really can get away without using swap, I'd suggest doing it. Have a little there, just as slush. We try to run our VMs as lean as possible (256MB RAM allocated) unless the app hosted requires a good amount of memory.

I tend to keep /home small so that you can copy something over if you need to, but it won't suck up a lot of space. I like separate filesystems on VMs primarily as a segregation tool to keep things in one area from clogging up something else.

VMs are cool, because you can run whatever in them, but it sometimes feels like quite a bit of waste.

Gregory


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