[geeks] Solaris 8 partitioning

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 05:31:06PM -0800, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> On Thursday, March 14, 2002, at 10:23 , Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> >So, here is my current plan:
> >/ 100megs on the 2.1gig drive
> >swap 384 megs on the 2.1gig drive
> >/var 100megs on the 2.1gig drive
> >/usr 1.5gigs on the 2.1 gig drive
> >/tmp 1gig on the 4.3 gig drive
> >/var/mail 200 megs on the 4.3gig drive
> >/home 2.8gigs on the 4.3gig drive.
> 
> Too much partitioning.  My suggestion:
> 
> / = all but 256M of boot disk (2.1g)
> 256M of swap.
> 
> Make the 4.3G drive /export/home
> 
> You don't need a /tmp, tmpfs is better.   If you feel the need for a 
> separate /var, make it 512M on the 2.1G drive, taking away from root.  
> (I do this if I expect /var to fill up.)

The only worry I have about /var is mail over flowing.  Otherwise, you plan
sounds easier.  I thought lots of paritions was supposed to be good.

One question, at the minimum, why isn't /tmp and swap on different drives 
good?  I really don't know anything about tmpfs though.  Time to go searching.


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Joshua D. Boyd