Thankyou so much Alvin for the detailed reply :-) Could you please answer some of my doubts based on your feed back?
On 6/14/05, Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi ya > > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Siju George wrote: > > > I want to have the following partitions in both the hard disk > > > > / - 500 MB - Primary > > good > > > swap - 2 GB - Primary > > bad location ?? if it is partition#2 > Yes its partition 2 . what would be an appropriate location??? I just followed the BSD way where swap (b) comes immediately after / (a). What is appropriate for linux?? > > /usr - 5 GB - Primary > > ok > actually i won't have much aplications, so I think it must be a bit large but its alright I think especialy if I get ideas later :-) > > /home - 500 MB - Logical > > extreme bad idea if you have users > I have no users that need a home directory. This will be basically a webserver (apache) and also a backup server. The webserver won't be up most the time so infact this is going to be a dedicated backup server that takes backups from Linux, MS Windows etc. I think of using bacula for taking backup from linux and a smbclient,tar,rsync something for taking backup from MS Windows so I hope 500 MB is o.k??? or is it more??? :-) > > /tmp - 5 GB - Logical > > extreme bad idea unless oyu have specific applications > that will run that requires /tmp to be that big > What would you sugget?? > most apps uses less than 100mb of /tmp or /var/tmp or /usr/tmp > I see. Thankyou for letting me know. :-) > > /var/log - 5 GB -logical > > wow .. you're collecting tons of log data ?? > - how much data do you have now in /var/log > last time I did't check but what would you suggest?? but I've noticed increase upto 100 MB sometimes in a matter of two days. > > /var - rest of the disk - logical > > extreme bad idea ... unless you have users > > - if you are intending to make a complete debian mirror > in /var/apt and equiv .. than it might be okay, but i'd > separate /var for users vs /var for system to keep itself running > Could you please explain this a little more to me? > you cannot ever provide enough disk space for uwers or your own > applications .. you will always run out of space .. > > some apps require /opt in which case / is too small > o.k I use on this system Apache PHP4 MySQL Samba Postfix Qpopper Bacula thats it for now. Do you suggets I create a seperate /opt partition??? if so how much size?? > > I prefer ext3 or ReiserFS for file systems. > > or xfs or jfs .. > > for disks that are say 500GB or more ... i'm not even gonna try > using ext3 ... > > for partitions over 2TB ... its gonna be a fun testing game of > which apps crash first because it used the wrong libs > I 've only used Ext3 till now because I heard data recover is difficult in all others except ext2. and also I understand that ReiserFS is better than XFS if the system goes down suddenly due to power failure. Don't know much about JFS :-( this hard disk is only 40 GB :-) Thankyou so much once again for taking time to explain things to me :-) good luck! kind regards Siju
