On Sunday 11 February 2007 18:07, Janus wrote:
> I am preparing a small server for my house hold with openSUSE 10.2. It will
> primarily work as a file server (samba) with each users own ~home, as well
> as some shares for mp3s etc. Maybe I will also install Apache if I can find
> a nice web based "jukebox" for accessing mp3s to various client computers.
>
> My disk drive is 250 GB. I am thinking about something like:
>
> swap  1 GB
> /             10 GB
> /home 240 GB
>
> 1) Is is OK with one 10 GB / for both software, logs etc? Or should I give
> e.g. /var its own partition?
>
> 2) Should I consider a separate /srv partition for mp3s etc, or will I do
> just fine but placing shared folders in a sparate home directory which
> everybody in my household can access? I am asking because YaST suggest
> placering https docs in /src/web/ (which would be the same as my /)

Regarding whether we should separate certain directory from /, the rule of 
thumb is that if we want to be able to format/reinstall Linux without having 
the hassle of backing up/moving data to other machine first, then we should 
separate it. 

Your partition plan is OK. Regarding the web directory we can always change it 
into /home/www (whichever).

On a side note, it's even better if we use LVM, so that when in the future we 
run out of space, we can "expand" it into another disk seamlessly.
HTH,
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