On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 03:48, Albert Charron wrote:
> I'd like to have your advice on a new installation. For this installation, I plan
> to use 3 hard disk (IDE). This machine will be use as a file server for my Windoze
> machines. Additionnal services will be CVS, HTTP, MySQL
>
> 3 HD are:
> - 40Gigs
> - 10Gigs
> - 4Gigs
>
> How should I partition (partition size, location, etc.) these HD?
>
> Distro I plan to use is Mandrake 9.0. System memory for this machine is 384 Megs.
Windows file server:
40gb drive ----> * /boot partition - 100mb
/ partition - 10gb
/var partition - the rest of the drive
10gb drive ----> * SWAP partition - 1gb
/home partition - the rest of the drive
4gb drive ----> /tmp partition - the entire drive
Use the /var partition for your Windows share(s) - create a directory
underneath the /var (like /var/file_share) and use that for your
sharing/network file archive
The /home is large enough to contain all the users email folders/files,
as well as your local home directory for mucking around and the likes.
By balancing out the system as such - keeping the OS on one physical
drive, the SWAP on another physical drive, and the /tmp on another
physical drive, you're "load balancing" and gaining the most performance
overall.
You might want to check into what file system(s) you're going to want to
use - I've found that ReiserFS is rather speedy - especially for my
Windows shares - heaps of small files and large writes/reads...
But that's IMHO - others may beg to differ.
HTH!
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