Re: *nix partitioning practices
Pete Templin <[email protected]>
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[email protected] wrote: > Figuring 500GB of unformatted storage (~465GB formatted), I am thinking > along these lines: > > 8GB - SWAP (4GB RAM) > 1GB - / (root) > 15GB - /var (qmail puts everything in there) > 10GB - /usr (base binaries and ports) > 10GB - /usr/local (additional binaries I install) > 200GB - /home I used to just have one home fs, but I found that it > 200GB - /home2 makes for very long amanda restores for a customer site > > The roughly 20GB left over could be used for adding swap at a later date, > if neccessary. Before now, I used to do as above, only with no separate > /usr/local and only one /home. The idea is for a quick recovery in the > even a system has to be restored, and also to perhaps not have to back up > /usr all the time. > > I'd like to get experienced thoughts on this. Ancient experience here, but I changed from "lots of partitions" to "as few partitions per spindle as possible" when I realized that partitions were forcing long(er) seeks. Nowadays my standards are (based on old swap limits): 1.5G - SWAP (lowest priority) 1.5G - SWAP (middle priority) 1.5G - SWAP (highest priority) <rest> - / Admittedly, I can see your restore problem being an issue... pt -- Eat sushi frequently. - Avi [email protected] is the human contact address. [email protected] is the list posting address. See below URL for subscribe/unsubscribe and list options: http://inet-access.net/mailman/listinfo/list