On Friday 15 June 2001 16:13, Kevin J. Menard, Jr. wrote: > This system would be used mostly for web-hosting, so I was figuring > a large /home partition. Likewise only one or two kernels max, so I > figured a small /boot. And finally, and this is really where I'm
Why do you need a separate partition for /boot? Why not just have it in the root fs? Problems with booting from partitions >2G were solved ages ago, your root file system should fit into 8G (although even that limit doesn't apply if your BIOS is new enough). > looking for help, it will be used as an IMAP/SMTP machine. So, should > I create a separate /var partition? I'm hesitant because I don't want > to a) not create a large enough partition, or b) create too large of I suggest having your email stored on the same file system as /home. Then you have all of your customer data on the same file system for easy backup. Also it saves juggling space. > one and waste space. Do the performance gains outweigh this? (I'm not > terribly worried about the redundancy with the RAID 10 and all). What performance gains are you referring to? -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
