Date sent: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 00:52:42 -0800
From: Victor Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [newbie] Server Partitions
> I am setting up a Mandrake 7.0 file/print server on an IBM Netfinity(PII
> 350, 128 meg, 9.1 Gig SCSI-2) for our office w/ 15 users and was
> wondering what the best partition sizes would be? The only major
> software that we plan on adding to the Mandrake distro(for now) is some
> type of collaboration sofware like Netscape calendar/scheduling. I'll
> be doing an expert install(even though I'm not) and only installing the
> services that we absolutely need, although I will include KDE and Gnome
> because they are so much easier to deal with for file and system
> maintenance.
>
> >From reading the archives I guess that I need; swap(128 megs), /boot(20
> megs), /(?), /usr(600?), /usr/local(1,500?), /tmp(50?), /var(100?), and
> /home(the rest). The part that I don't get is what exactly gets put into
> "/"? Does /boot hold the kernel and / hold all the other software like
> Samba, etc? And then any software I add after the installation goes into
> /usr/local?
>
> Please feel free to offer suggestions,
Hi, I suggest the following partitions:
Swap (128 MB )
/ (700 MB)
/usr (2000 MB)
/home (7000 MB)
I have no experience in /boot partitions so I can't tell you nothing
about this.
Good luck!!
>
> Victor
>
>
Emilio Correa
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