On Wednesday 12 October 2005 16:31, D Bhardwaj wrote: > Now I have figured out that it defaulted to 2 partitions (1. swap, 2. / > which is reisernfs). So now after all this I am thinking of a re-install > and re-partition as follows(based on readup on the net) and using ext3 > instead(this is based on hearsay not my knowledge): swap > /boot > /var > /home > Does this look reasonable and how should the sizing look like?
Check out this link http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4#doc_chap4 It has a nice writeup on the differnet file systems, which helps one choose which is best for their situation.... (just ignore the rest of the document - it's the Gentoo install guide, and from the sounds of things I wouldn't recommend this process to you yet... ) As for partitions, it really depends on your needs. I personally like to make /home a separate partition, but then move my web root, and databases onto this partition. This makes it a little easier to keep the stuff I need to backup together. Another reason is that if I need to reinstall, I can use the same /home partition, without reformatting it. In almost all cases, I'm able to save user configurations this way. But this isn't toooo important if there aren't going to be a lot of users on the system. If you are going to use Suse, a separate /boot partition isn't that useful. Suse tends to do it's own thing. (BTW, I don't think the SuSe kernel recognizes ext3 by default - so if you make your boot partition ext3, you may not be able to boot - I experienced this in the past, but don't know about the latest version...) > I have been told 'swat' is a good gui for configuring samba config, for the > unfamiliar. Comments? I've used swat in the past. It provides a graphical interface to the smb.conf file. But you still need to know what all the terms mean. A better option might be to use the KDE Samba configuration tools (available in KDE 3.4 and newer). This tool is much simpler to understand. Also, Swat is a web based application - you would need to take care to ensure it does not become available to anyone unauthorized (like the general public on the Internet), for security reasons. > Although I wanted something similar to the Windows ldap based Active > Directory, I am told to take a few steps back from openldap at this point. You might want to throw together a test box and install Kolab. It has an easy install (2 scripts to run, answer some questions, and your done). In the process, it installs and configures open ldap, as well as your mail clients. It sounds like you are after something similar to the functionality that Kolab provides (an almost drop in replacement for an Exchange server). I don't recommend installing Kolab on an existing production server - at least not for the first time. (As an aside it looks like the next workshop will be on installing Kolab and a web mail server). > I was testing Suse9.3 Enterprise at home, the os doesn't tell me how many > days are left before it quits on me? I guess I could wait for that day- > anyone tried this? Contrary to what the documentation would have you believe, the eval versions of SLES do not expire. The only thing that does expire is the telephone or official support. If you have it set up to get online updates, this will (to the best of my knowledge) continue to work. > > Apologies for so many questions! It's what we're here for.... :) Shawn
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