On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Victor Richardson wrote:
:~Hi Denis, I set up a server for our office of 15 clients using Mandrake 7.0,
...
:~I currently have it set with:
:~
:~/boot - 20 megs
:~/tmp- 200 megs
:~/var - 200 megs
:~/ - 500 megs
:~/usr - 1,500 megs
:~/home - 6,200
As a matter of fact, I find "default" sizes chosen by mandrake install
program very good for a desktop machine. Especially having /home as a big
separate partition.
On a server, /tmp and /var COULD take quite a lot of space, on a desktop
it is mostly /usr, /home and maybe /opt.
Denis
Hi Denis, I set up a server for our office of 15 clients using Mandrake 7.0,
it will be used for filesharing and web browsing. There is no need for email
or printer sharing because each Netscape client POP's their mail from an
account w/ our web host and everyone has their own rinter. We may add
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Subject: Re: [newbie] /, /usr, and /opt?
Hi Denis, I set up a server for our office of 15 clients using Mandrake
7.0,
it will be used for filesharing and web browsing. There is no need for
email
or printer shari
Thank you Emilio. Some people claim that third-party software ends up
in /opt however, and if I don't make a separate partition for /opt I guess
that is created under /. If / is too small this may cause it to be full
rather quickly, while /usr remains comparatively empty. Of course, if
Hi, I will tell you how I create my partitions and thats ok for me:
My main partition (hda) has about 3 GB, and then in the installation I
created:
/ (500 MB) (here is important to give space for /temp )
/usr (2 GB)
/swap (128 MB) (depending of your RAM memory)
/local (370 MB) (personal
You will be wasting a lot of space. / only needs about 50 MB. I sent this out
last week. Try to find a Red Hat 5.0 install book and look up its examples.
I've been doing this for about five years now, I the guidance I got when I
started with HP-UX and Solaris was that swap is 1.5 X your
