Chuck Hast wrote:
> I am trying to set up a small file server for about 8 people. I have
> one hard disk that is 1G in size, I have a second one that is about
> 3G in size. How would you set up the partitions on them.
> Obviously the OS and such stuff will go on the smaller one, and the
> larger one will be where the user files will reside.
> Can you give me some numbers?
On a server, I _highly_recommend_ separating out the /tmp and /var
filesystems. You don't want things to get nasty if you run out of
inodes (long story short, Linux uses both "blocks" allocation units
and "inodes" 'meta-data' blocks). But your storage is tight, so I'm
not sure.
Secondly, it depends on your RAM. If you have upto 128MB of RAM, I
would do this:
Disk 1:
swap 256MB
/ 256MB
/tmp 256MB
/var 256MB
Disk 2:
/usr 1024MB
/home 2048MB
Now you're going to need to be "selective" in your packages, as you
only have a 1GB /usr filesystem. You're also going to need to be
aware of your printing and web server content, as both will use
/var. /var can fill up very quickly on a server, especially a
print/web server. And I highly recommend getting another disk,
especially with 20GB drives for <<$80 these days.
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