Standard wisdom is to isolate everything across partitions to sandbox people who might compromise apache into /var, for example.
This is really a personal preference type of thing, IMO. Joe Fruchey wrote: >whoa. Do I really need all those? > >On 10/12/06, Andrew Baudouin <andrewmb at gmail.com> wrote: > > >>I don't remember how much ram you said you had, but assuming 2GB >>(double the ram as a swap partition), I'd partition as follows: >> >>Assuming the drive is called /dev/sda.... >> >>/dev/sda1 100MB ext2 /boot >>/dev/sda2 4GB Linux swap >>/dev/sda3 5GB reiser3 /tmp >>/dev/sda4 (Extended holder) >>/dev/sda5 20GB xfs/jfs /var (I know most >>distributions place their server application binaries and data under the >>var directory) >>/dev/sda6 19GB xfs/jfs /usr >>/dev/sda7 20GB xfs/jfs /opt >>/dev/sda8 10GB xfs/jfs / >>/dev/sda8 1GB xfs/jfs /home >> >> >>Depending on the needs of your applications, you may find that 5GB as >>/tmp doesn't work well. Really all of the above information depends on >>your applications. If you have a need for a bunch of user specific, >>large files and less of a need for client applications, decrease /opt >>and increase /home. >> >> >>Joe Fruchey wrote: >> >> >> >>>Ok, I dusted off my Ubuntu 6.06 LTS DVD (Amazing how much dust >>>accumulates in four months...), popped two 80GB drives in the GX240, >>>and started the install. >>> >>>I want to do RAID1 for data integrity, but I have no RAID experience >>>whatsoever. I set it up with 2 active drives and 0 spare drives (is >>>that right?) >>> >>>Now how should I partition this thing? On my desktops, I like to do >>>one big partition, plus swap, but I know most servers are partitioned >>>crazily. What should I do? >>> >>>Joe >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>General mailing list >>>General at brlug.net >>>http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>General mailing list >>General at brlug.net >>http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >General at brlug.net >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > >
