This is a tough call. Since you plan to allow your users to do shell logins,
I'd say your basic need is to protect system areas from being filled up by
user data. The simplest way to do that is with two partitions:
/ for all system files
/home for all user home directories,
also your Web home,
also a symlink to /var/spool/mail .
You as root need to manage / to avoid running out of space, but you have to
do that anyway, even with a lot of partitions. In your case, I'd be tempted
to make /var/spool/mail its own partition.
At a guess, I'd do about 1.5 gB for /, 2.0 gB for /home, 0.5 gB for mail,
adjusting /home down by whatever you need for swap. But the exact numbers
depend on how many users, anticipated mail volume, size of the Web site, etc.
Aside from that, I'd do other separate partitions only for identified
specialized needs -- Deirdre's example of burning CDs is a good one; in my
case, I've sometimes found it handy to have a small partition I can use for
unpacking the contents of root or rescue disks.
At 05:00 PM 2/11/99 -0600, Samarth Kumar wrote:
>Hello Everybody,
>
> I am trying to install Slackware on a Pentium 200 64 MB RAM system with a
>4GB hard drive. The system will be used primarily for a dns server, mail
>server allowing pop3 as well as shell logins. Later on, web page hosting
>may also be considered. I hope to allow users access to PINE to check
>email and also to use pop3.
>
> Any suggestions on what suitable partition sizes should be used for
>implementing this system.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>Samarth
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