[PLUG] Re: partitioning question

[jbeck@jbwd.net]

Wow, thanks Bill!  This is more than enough to go on! 

Bill Jonas writes: 

> On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:40:45PM +0000, jbeck@jbwd.net wrote:
> > Can anyone recommend a simple partitioning scheme for this drive, including 
> > mountpoints?  I plan on using RH7.1, and it is making me manually partition 
> > the drives, which I am new at, and don't know how to break it out 
> > logically... 
>
> Well, you'll probably get as many answers as people on the list.  :) 
>
> Try checking out the Partition-mini-HOWTO at
> <http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition/index.html>. 
>
> It depends on the intended use for the machine as well as the
> distribution, to a somewhat lesser extent.  My recommendation:  Give it
> a couple hundred megs or so for / and split the rest of the space
> between /var and /usr, keeping back some space for swap.  Probably favor
> /var a bit over /usr.  My reasoning is that since it's going to be a web
> server, you'll want a rather large /var partition, since the
> DocumentRoot generally is at /var/www. 
>
> Here's my setup.  I have an old Sparc 10 with two disks in it totalling
> around 4.5GB.  Here's how I decided to do it: 
>
> # sudo fdisk -l /dev/sd{a,b} 
>
> Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 10 heads, 165 sectors, 5147 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1650 * 512 bytes 
>
>    Device Flag    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1             0      2573   2122725   83  Linux native
> /dev/sda2  u       2573      5147   2123550   83  Linux native 
>
> Disk /dev/sdb (Sun disk label): 14 heads, 59 sectors, 1018 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 826 * 512 bytes 
>
>    Device Flag    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1             0       384    158592   83  Linux native
> /dev/sdb2  u        384      1018    261842   82  Linux swap
> # df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdb1             150M   13M  129M   9% /
> /dev/sda1             2.0G  905M  1.0G  47% /usr
> /dev/sda2             2.0G  1.0G  906M  53% /var
> # mount
> /dev/sdb1 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro,errors=remount-ro)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> /dev/sda1 on /usr type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/sda2 on /var type ext2 (rw)
> # free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        127192     123228       3964      39740      33984      59472
> -/+ buffers/cache:      29772      97420
> Swap:       261832          0     261832 
>
> I decided against having a separate /home partition, but I wanted more
> space than 150M to share between / and /home, so I created
> /usr/local/home and linked /home to that. 
>
> Of course, you might decide to use one big partition.  There's a pro/con
> comparison of the benefits of multiple filesystems vs. a single
> filesystem in the FreeBSD Handbook, at
> <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html>
> (about a third of the way down the page; search for "Benefits of
> multiple filesystems").  About the only advantage you have with a single
> partition is a little added flexibility.  In addition to the benefits
> listed at the above URL, having multiple partitions will permit you to
> keep going, say, if somebody's DoSing you and the partition with your
> logs fills up. 
>
> Hope that helps somewhat. 
>
> --
> Bill Jonas    *    bill@billjonas.com    *    http://www.billjonas.com/ 
>
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