[plug] ghosting and partitions
smclevie
smclevie at ozemail.com.au
Sat Apr 3 12:13:37 WST 2004
Hi all,
Thanks for the help regarding this issue. I've copied my config directory
/etc to another 'storage' drive and other directories ( /boot and /var/www )
I also then used a small excess hard drive to practice putting a complete
installation with my partition requirements.
When everything was functional and installation issues finalised I scrubbed
the original hard drive and started again.
My reasons for doing this was that my original partition structure meant
that I had a real nightmare ahead of me so I thought it best to restart. (
Apart from the fact that I don't get joy from even simple adjustments to
fstab!! )
SO!
Here are my results,
I now know that one must 'define' certain directories before others. eg in
the partition list one must have a '/var' directory before the '/var/mail'
directory.
If this is not done, the directory (partition) is not recognised for some
reason. ( I think this is a bug myself ... )
I would prefer to put partitions wherever I want but...
I also now suggest an initial primary partition followed by logical
partitions. Reason being the ease of adjustments later ...
It is possible to have 4 primary partitions on IDE drives or 3 primaries
and 63 logicals. This is the absolute maximum.
(One would be quite silly to go anywhere near these extremes of 63 logicals !!)
For those who might be interested this is my partition list for a 40G drive
used as a server. Any further suggestions would be appreciated.
Filesystem Type Size Used Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 primary ext3 370M 72M 21% /
/dev/hda5 logical ext3 19G 1G5 9% /var
/dev/hda6 logical ext3 9G2 1G8 21% /usr
/dev/hda7 logical ext3 462M 8M9 3% /tmp
/dev/hda8 logical ext3 2G3 34M 2% /home
/dev/hda9 logical ext3 1G9 33M 2% /usr/local
/dev/hda10 logical ext3 939M 18M 2% /var/mail
/dev/hda11 logical ext3 939M 17M 2% /var/ftp
/dev/hda12 logical ext3 1G9 44M 3% /var/www
/dev/hda13 logical swap ~670M /swap
/dev/hdb1 primary ext3 111G 4G7 5% /storage
Although I have 512M RAM I leave a significant Swap partition at the end of
the drive.
The system is pretty big in terms of number of applications running. It is
a freshly installed system without much data as yet.
Why all the partitions? Control over hacks and blowouts at least. There
is a limit to how much I can get spammed! (Albeit rather a lot of spam!)
I reckon this is pretty sweet.
Comment and improvements appreciated (surely can't beat this can you??!!)
Cheers,
Steve.
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