Types of partitions

[Carl Yost Jr]

I did my samba server here at work:

/boot
/
/usr
/export
/var
/tmp

Not sure of the sizes :). I usually do the same to my Sun servers. Again personnel preference :). I put all the home directories, and samba stuff under /export.


----- Original Message -----
From: TheCactusKid Cactus <thecactuskid45 at yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 08:21:11 -0800 (PST)
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: RE: Types of partitions

> Thanks for your added input, I see I've got a lot of reading to do. I'll keep you all posted as to the outcome. Just to let ya know, I've got nearly 17 gigs to work with. So I hope thats enough?
>  
> Thanks, tHecActUsKid:)
> 
> Dennis Ruzeski <dennisr at corp.kanoodle.com> wrote:
> Cyber Source is right- This topic is a heated controversy amongst sys admins. The bottom line is that there is no 'right' way to partition your drive (assuming that you leave enough room for everything.
>  
> my home system layout is like this-
>  
> /boot - 100M
> / - 7G
> 1024 swap
> /home - rest of disk.
>  
> I made a separate home partition for 2 reasons- 1 is that I now have a partition that I can keep safe while I reinstall my OS (which I do frequently for testing and such). and 2 is that I can format the partition with different options as far as block size, journaling options, and size reserved for root for performance reasons.
>  
> There's other reasons to have separate partitions- 
> For example- I don't mount the /boot partition by default- There's no real need. I mount it to install a new kernel or mess with the boot loader options.
> System backups can be easier. At my workplace we do backups with dd and ssh and it makes doing a whole partition easy.
> Also, having certain data that doesn't change (say a partition with a large media collection) can be mounted read only to keep it somewhat safer from accidental deletion.
> Finally, some places have special needs as far as logging- At work we have a 25G var partition for the tremendously huge apache logs we generate.
>  
> I hope this clears some things up--
>  
> --Dennis
>  
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TheCactusKid Cactus [mailto:thecactuskid45 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 8:34 AM
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: RE: Types of partitions
> 
> 
> Hi y'all,
> I've got a question. Now I read that there's a /boot, /root, /swap, /user/local & or /user, (don't really understand the difference?) and /home. Are there any others I should know about in a typical installation or is this it? What would be the difference between.... in the line-up that is....from a Workstation and Server class install. (as far as types of partitions) What would be the line-up of either? I know I'm not setting up a server class system but for the heck of it what would be the line-up? Thanks for all the help.
>  
> tHecActUsKid:)
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