Hi, Theo! Theo Van Dinter (felicity@kluge.net) wrote 60 lines: > My rule of thumb for disk layout on a server is: > /boot - Small, usually 32-128MB, don't run out of space here. You can also do a combined / and /boot. Give it enough space and move everything where non-related changes happen away from it. (128 to 256 MB should outlast your HD.) Non-LVM. > / - I put /usr in here since there's no reason not to any Personally I feel /usr really wants a separate partition. You also may want partitions for /usr/src (if you have lots of compiling/source code for the whole machine), and /usr/local (if you use more than a few programs which are not on your distribution). Sub-partitions are possible, depending on usage. Long live LVM. > /var - As someone's already stated, filling up /var can be a DoS. If you have a news spool, put it on a separate partition -- it's just too different from size and lifetime compared to /var. Unless you have a non-file/hardlink-based news system. And then still move it out of the way. If you have a WWW cache, that one might want a separate partition as well -- and usually there's no need to backup that cache. > /tmp - Yet another possible DoS, don't allow user-writable areas > to live on /. 128-512M should be sufficient, it's > temporary space after all. More -- especially with quotas. Sometimes people have to download CD-Rom Images (e.g. .iso) and might be unable to put them into /home. Speaking of it -- /home probably wants a partition, too; and regular backups. -Wolfgang
