Recommended partitioning

Teo De Las Heras teoheras at gmail.com
Sat Oct 15 19:07:36 PDT 2005


Some of my reading in books and online does suggest straying from the
default when configuring mail and web servers (for example). I do understand
the importance of following standards, and that's why I'm asking for
feedback from this list.
 Teo

 On 10/15/05, Andrew P. <infofarmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/16/05, Teo De Las Heras <teoheras at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Teo De Las Heras <teoheras at gmail.com>
> > Date: Oct 15, 2005 4:11 PM
> > Subject: Feeback on partitioning
> > To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >
> > I'm getting ready to set up a single system as a mail, print, web, and
> file
> > server. I may be installing other applications but nothing as intense as
> > Xorg. If at all, I'll probably just install some network monitoring
> tools.
> > I'm placing all of these roles on a single system because it is only for
> my
> > lab. I have a 160 GB to use and I'm thinking about laying out the
> partitions
> > as follows:
> > Part Size
> > / 10G - for both the / and /usr files
> > (swap) 2G
> > /var 10G - Web server, print spool, other log files??
> > /var/mail 10G - for all mail files and easy backup
> > /home 50G - for all user files
> > /home/teo 40G - For my files and easy backup
> > *The rest of the space I'll leave unused in case I need to grow a
> partition
> > I'm new to FreeBSD/*Nix so all criticism is welcome.
> > Teo
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>
> FreeBSD is flexible enough to handle any directory
> layout you like. No matter what background you
> come from, you can always turn a few knobs -
> and make yourself at home.
>
> But if you want to stay with FreeBSD for some
> time, if you want to know it better, it's best to
> accept the installer's defaults - and get used
> to them then. Minimum /, small /var and /tmp,
> huge /usr - where all huge things are meant
> to be, including web content, home dirs and
> even huge logs and huge temporary files.
>
> The talk is that hier and partitioning might
> need some brushing up, but for now, if
> you stick to it, you'll find it hard to run into
> real trouble when you're left with no solution
> other than repartitioning your whole disk.
>
>


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