(Previously responded directly by accident) > Hi Jason > > > "JUST a server"? What sort of server? How much hard > > drive space do you have? > > I want to run a web server (apache), have support for > perl, php, mysql, and these things. I've got 13GB of > space... > What do you suggest?
/ 500MB /boot 100MB (usually not mounted) /home 8GB /usr 1.5GB (mounted read-only) /var 3GB Of course, it really depends on the expected size of your database and web site. A 3GB /var will give you plenty of space for compiling and a fairly large database. But then you may expect a fairly static size web site with a large database, in which case it would be better to 3GB for /home and 8GB for /var. If your not certain on the sizes, then I would suggest similar to the following: / 500MB /boot 100MB (usually not mounted) /home 10GB /home/mysql (standard directory) /usr 1.5GB (mounted read-only) /var 1GB /var/lib/mysql (symlinked to /home/mysql) You even do something similar with /usr/portage, meaning you would only have to remount /usr read-write if there were actual updates to be made and drop /usr down to 500MB as well. I'm not certain of the size of /usr without XFree86, but 1GB would definately be more than enough if you move /usr/portage/distfiles somewhere else. One benefit of symlinking /var/lib/mysql (I think that's where the database is stored - it is with postgresql but you will need to confirm it) is that all data requires backup would be in /home. Secondly, if you worried about the stability of different filesystems, you could put a "more stable" filesystem on /home and "faster" filesystems on the other partitions. *DISCLAIMER* I've never set up a server using Gentoo. I have set up systems with several partitions and not ran out of space. Use information at own risk, blah, blah, blah... The best place I've seen for information regarding partitioning is in the FreeBSD installation guide. It goes through the pros and cons in a fairly general way. You should probably check that out and there's a fairly extensive thread on filesystems in the Gentoo forums. Check those out and you should be right. Good luck! Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
