[arch] The ever lasting story: hard disk partitioning

[Nicolas Dufour]

I would say :

/boot 10-500Mo
swap ~ 1-2*ram (even if now the twice the ram becomes a bit ridiculeous)
/    5-10Go
/home what is left.

It's usually better to have a swap a bit bigger the ram. If you need the
suspend feature you will be set.

For the root, I used to have the traditionnal set : /, /var, /usr, /tmp
and so on. But is it really usefull ? not really.
For security reason, the separation of / and /usr can be usefull but
that's it. I'm using a 10G for the / and I'm comfy ;)

The separation of /var can be nice too. But be carefull to put the right
size ...

CapNemo

On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 22:05 +0100, RedShift wrote:
> Ehlo
> 
> Usually I don't really care about hard disk partitioning, because most 
> of my computers are just workstations. One big /, a swap partition and 
> sometimes a small /boot partition. However, now I want to install a 
> server and I'm not quite sure my partition scheme is chosen wisely:
> 
> /boot        <- 25 mb
> swap        <- 1 GB (server has 1 gb ram)
> /        <- 2 GB
> /usr/local    <- 500 MB
> /home        <- The rest
> 
> Point of /usr/local is for all custom compiled software (not the 
> packages from the repositories). Now this all looks good, but there are 
> 2 problems with this setup:
> 
> 1) /var is on the root volume (/), which is 2 GB in size. Ofcourse, when 
> the system is under attack or some other reason /var fills up, my / is 
> full and this could lead to a dangerous situation (not being able to log 
> in anymore). Also the logs are on the same volume. Would it be wise to 
> create under /home for example /home/system/logs and let /var/log be a 
> symlink to that?
> 
> 2) /tmp can fill up too. I would consider mounting /tmp with tmpfs, 512 
> MB in size, is that enough for server purposes? (Web/mail/general purpose)
> 
> Thanks for your advice.
> 
> Glenn
> 
> 
> 
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