some random thoughts: it very much depends what you want to do. /usr is usually the biggest. /var needs to be bnig if you want to hold big mail or news spools, as they usually reside in /var/spool. I had to link my own mail into /usr because /var ran out of space.
?var also has logs which can grow quite big - that in itself is quite a good reason to make /var a separate partition so if it fills up it doesn't stop the whole system running. on redhat the http root and ftp root are also on /var/http and /var/ftp respectively, so allow for them if you want big web pages or ftp store. redhat installer will make some suggestions if you let it automatically partittion. If you don't like what you see you can back out and change it yourself. On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:33:12 +1300 Peter van Hout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes another newbie question� > > This weekend I am planning to fdisk our old NT server and install Red > Hat 8.0. It has three physical SCSI hard drives driven from the same > SCSI Card. 2 of these drives are 4.5G while the other one is an 18G > drive. The 18G drive is the last on the chain. > > I am going to set the machine up as a server. > > Any recommendations on the size allocation of each of the > folders/directories and on which drive I should put them when I > partition the drives? > > Peter van Hout > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.404 / Virus Database: 228 - Release Date: 10/15/2002 > > -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch, NZ Ph +64 3 3798966 Fax + 64 3 3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz
