On Saturday 19 July 2003 12:49, G�zim wrote: > Hello guys, > I am gonna install gentoo on a Celeron 433Mhz and it's > gonna be JUST a server, I want to know what partitions > should I make and how big? (like /var, /usr, etc.)? > Hello Gëzim,
"JUST a server"? What sort of server? How much hard drive space do you have? It's generally a good idea to have separate partitions for: / /boot /home /var /tmp (tmpfs) As far as size goes, however, it really depends on what you want to use the server for. If your setting it up as a SAMBA domain server, you may want a large /home, but if no users will "log in" at all you may not want a separate /home at all. Here's a small table of what basic services put data where. WWW /home FTP /home SAMBA /home SQL /var MAIL /var Remember that you'll want at least 512MB for /var for emerging stuff; 1~4GB if you want to emerge XFree86, OpenOffice, etc to run as a "terminal server". /boot should be about 100MB. / only needs about 200MB and 2~3GB for /usr would be plenty. Apart from that, as I said above, it really depends on what services you want to run, how big the userbase is and how much disk space you've got to play with. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
