years ago, the recommendation from Sun was to create several partitions on root disk. Something as below
s0 = / s1 = swap s2 = entire disk s3 = /usr s4 = /var s5 = /opt s6 = /export This involves a lot of guess work when defining the slice size with potential problems. For instance, undersize /var and pretty soon there will be no space left to apply patch clusters. Undersize root filesystem and you are in trouble. Nowadays, servers come standard with 72/146 GB disks and, if one is willing to pay for, 300 GB disks. My thinking is no longer to follow the above recommendation and use a new approach, such as: s1 = swap (size=1GB) s0 = / (size = disk capacity - 1GB) This way one gets rid of with the guess work of sizing the partitions. Any comments about this approach? Pros and cons? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any comments or statements made in this transmission reflect the views of the sender and are not necessarily the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. _______________________________________________ Solaris-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users
