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I have applied an update for that chapter based on the recommendations below. Thanks Tagging this bug as pending Holger cyri...@bollu.be wrote: > > Of course. > > But that page relies on lot of folk remedies imho. So, I believe the best is > to have some chat about it. > > For examples: > > 1) "For multi-user systems or systems with lots of disk space, it's best to > put /var, /tmp, and /home each on their own partitions separate from the / > partition. " > > In my experience of more than 10 years administrating Linux servers, creating > separate /var and /tmp partitions always created more problems than it > solved: For example, usually, applications crashes when they can't write > their logs because there's no more space on the /var partition. So you > usually end up with more downtime when creating a separate /var partition > than putting everything in /. > > (Note though that puttin everything in / may makes the problem more difficult > to solve if you can't access your server remotely as root - because in such > case you don't directly have access to the 5% disk space reserved for root-. > So you might not be able to log in remotely in such case) > > OTOH, putting the /home folder on a separate partition still makes some sense > to me. > > 2) "You might need a separate /usr/local partition if you plan to install > many programs that are not part of the Debian distribution." > > Why? > > 3) "Often, putting /tmp on its own partition, for instance 20–50MB, is a good > idea" > > 20-50MB!?! seriously?!? > > 4) The paragraph related to the swap don't really makes sense to me. For me > the rule of thumb is that people should try not to use swap (ie: by putting > enough RAM in you system) because using swap usually slows down your system > to a crawl. That being said, I've never tried to run a system without swap. > So, my point is not to say that a swap partition is not needed. Though, the > figures in this paragraph (eg: 256MB memory) seems to date from last century. > Also my point about how using the swap slows down the system might not stand > so well in these days of SSD drives... > > 5) "On some 32-bit architectures..." > > Do we really need to speak about 32bits architectures on an amd64 targeted > document? > > 6) "As an example, an older home machine might have 32MB of RAM and a 1.7GB > IDE drive on /dev/sda. There might be a 500MB partition for another operating > system on /dev/sda1, a 32MB swap partition on /dev/sda3 and about 1.2GB on > /dev/sda2 as the Linux partition. " > > Last century figures. > > ================= > > Summary: Here's my proposal for this page: > > For new users, personal Debian boxes, home systems, and other single-user > setups, a single / partition (plus swap) is probably the easiest, simplest > way to go." > > If your machine will be a mail server, you might want to make /var/mail a > separate partition. If you are setting up a server with lots of user > accounts, it's generally good to have a separate, large /home partition. In > general, the partitioning situation varies from computer to computer > depending on its uses. > > For very complex systems, you should see the Multi Disk HOWTO (Old document > though). This contains in-depth information, mostly of interest to ISPs and > people setting up servers. > > With respect to the issue of swap partition size, there are many views. > However, your best bet is always to try to avoid your system to swap by > putting enough RAM for your usage. > > For an idea of the space taken by tasks you might be interested in adding > after your system installation is complete, check Section D.2, “Disk Space > Needed for Tasks”. > > Carsten Schoenert – Fri, 26. April 2019 10:03 > > Hi, > > > > Am 26.04.19 um 09:11 schrieb cyri...@bollu.be: > > > > > > woaw, this page is severely outdated! > > > > a patch, or at least a rephrased text with the required updates and > > changes would be more helpful. > > > > -- > > Regards > > Carsten Schoenert > -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
