Partitioning can be a subjective thing since it depends, in part, on
what you intend to do with the machine. If, for instance, you intend to
have a sizable user base, then you want to have plenty of /home space.
Regardless, most people new to Linux make the mistake of not making /usr
and /var large enough. If you intend to experiment with various
applications or intend to load a fair amount of applications, then to
make certain that your /usr is big enough make it a separate partition.
You can, however, make put everything on / and let everything just run
on a single partition. The caveat there, however, is if the drive fills
up then / is full and you likely will have a difficult time recovering.
I typically partition as follows:
/boot - can be very small, around 50-75MB. I think RH8 recommends 75mb.
/ - I like to make this fairly large, but not the largest since it
houses everything not specified elsewhere.
/home - If you intend to have lots of users or share a lot of files,
then it's good to have this be the bulk of your space. I create my
Samba shares here, so this makes sense for me.
/var - If you're going to be moving mail for users, then this should
have it's own partition and be fairly large.
/usr - Very important partition because the more applications you add,
the bigger this directory will get.
/tmp - Some people make a separate partition for /tmp but provided / is
large enough it isn't necessary.
SWAP - Always make a decent swap partition! At least 256MB, but more if
you have a lot of RAM.
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 13:00, Douglas, Stuart wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm setting up a RH8 server (FTP) onto mirrored 40 GB drives (38162 usable..
.doing the RAID as part of the OS install) and need some partitioning suggestions for
the installation. What partitions and sizes should I use (and why for those who feel
like being extra informative...thanks in advance).
>
> Regards and thanks,
>
> Stuart
>
>
>
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