On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:56:12 +0100 Arnt Karlsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:12:37 -0500, Celejar wrote in message > <[email protected]>: > > > On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:08:42 +0100 > > Arnt Karlsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:20:02 -0400, Stefan wrote in message > > > <[email protected]>: > > > > > > > > sda1 / 10Gb > > > > > > ..overkill. > > > > > > > > sda2 /usr 10Gb > > > > > > ..unless this is a single purpose server, > > > you will want much more, e.g. 50G. > > > > 50Gb for /usr?! Why?! > > ..I installed _everything_ until Lenny, and > played around and reported mostly conflict > bugs. And, Sid provides a softer growth than > the dist-upgrade disk usage shocks. ;o) > > ..most people will want "comfy space" to play > around in and learn, these days that's easily > 20GB, and for your next machine in say 5 years, > easily 50GB. This still seems very high. My /usr currently uses 2GB, and while I admit I'm pretty parsimonious, I really don't see the point in 20. HDDs are large today, but my machine only has 60. > > > > > sda3 /var 10 Gb > > > > > > ..for a server, you want much more, I use > > > 22G for a lan web server. > > > > Why? What's in your var? > > .. mount points for /var/www and var/log > (22GB and 2.2GB), 1.6GB in var/tmp, > 1.3GB in /var/lib, 179MB in /var/cache and > 120MB in /var/mail, to name the big ones. Yes, I understand a few GB for /var/log, but many webservers aren't serving anything close to 20 GB of content. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
