This may be of good use to you. The whole book is online and answers a lot of similar questions. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/ch02_01.html
justin -----Original Message----- From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 3:44 PM To: Debian Users Subject: Re: Where to slice a 2 gig drive ? on Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 02:39:39PM -0500, lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Ok..I'm fairly new to linux and extremely new to debian (was mandrake > 8.1)..I'm attempting to install 2.2r2 on a 2 gig drive here and not > really sure where to carve this drive up. I'm planning on using this > box as a proxy for 6 other machines (combo of linux/98se). Linux docs > has a few articles on this but I thought I'd come straight to the > horses mouth to learn what might be best :-) 2 GB is a bit on the smallish side. If you're using it as a proxy, I'd probably set up /, /tmp, /usr, and /var as separate partitions. Depending on what proxy services you're offering, you might want to make /var the bulk of the partitions (squid, ferexample, dumps its cache there). My base suggestions are at: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html I'd modify these as follows: / 100 MB <swap> 64 - 128 MB /tmp 50 MB /usr 300 - 600 MB /var 1,200 - 1,400+ MB Note I'm not allocating /home, /boot, or /usr/local. Rationale: This is a server, /home isn't particularly needed. The gains of creating separate /boot and /usr/local partitions are also small (though a 16-24MB /boot partition wouldn't significantly cut into available storage). /usr needn't be too large, and limiting installed software likely increases system security. Providing ample storage to /var allows both for package updating (unless the archives are remotely hosted via NFS on another system in the network), and allows ample storage for caching proxies such as squid. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free We freed Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
