[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> I have installed RH on several PCs in the past. Now I am bring an
> old Pentium 133 back into play as a Masquerade server. I has 96 MB
> RAM, 2.1 GB HD [the smallest and cheapest that I could find in my neck
> of the woods] and two linksys 10/100 ethernet cards and a generic
> video card.
Should be enough, and will work quite well.
> My question is that since I am sure this machine will be upgraded in
> the future and that I am not going to install unnecessary packages on
> this HD how should I patitiion it?
> My ideas were:
> /boot 20-30 MB
> /home 200 MB
> /usr/sbin 500 MB
> / everything else
> I have no real reason for this schema. I want to protect
> established scripts etc when reinstall or major upgrading is
> necessary. Any easier schema?
I'd suggest you try something more like:
/boot 12 MB
/sbin 12 MB
/usr/sbin 12 MB
/bin 12 MB
/home 500 MB
swap 96 Mb
/ balance of drive.
This suggestion is based on the appearance you give of wanting to
protect
system executables from finagling (esp hacking), and of being able to
preserve scripts across reinstalls as you state.
/boot with one kernel installed, only requires 2.4 Mb. At 12 Mb you're
going about as small as most systems will allow easily (1 - 2 cylinders)
and you're still providing room to have up to about 3 kernels installed.
/sbin, /usr/sbin, and /bin if on separate partitions can be mounted
read-only, thus aiding system security from hackers. You're still
allowing for up to a 100% increase in the number/size of binaries
stored there.
/home should be a separate partition - you can do reinstall/reformat and
archive what you need to preserve there. Also, with regards to
important
system configuration scripts, your personal scripts, etc.; set up a CVS
archive on /home and use that to preserve your scripts.
best
rickf
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