[SunHELP] Solaris 8 slicing advice

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> I am setting up a Sun Ultra 2 Enterprise box for a
> small web hosting company. The box has
> 4.0 GB HD. It will serv as a public web server, public
> mail server and I need to install
> a database server on it too. When I am installing
> Solaris 8, it gave me a choice of the
> following slicing:
> /	55 MB
> /var	37 MB
> /usr	800 MB
> swap	52 MB
> /export	3.1 GB
>
>
> I have changed the slicing to :
> /	55 MB
> /var	1020 MB
> /usr	825 MB
> /opt	24 MB
> swap	1024 mb
> /export	900 MB
> /usr/openwin	360 MB

IMO, this is also dependent upon Processor/RAM.  I'd consider putting a
lot more in /var, if it's going to be handling mail and web.  Logs can get
large, especially if the site and mail system gets busy.  You can also
config Apache (assuming that's what you'll be using) to serve pages out of
/var.  I might add a little more to /usr too, if I were going to be
installing additional software (such as a custom build of Apache, PHP,
postfix, etc).

Also, I'd probably put swap on slice zero, mainly because of the physics
of the disk (the inside of the disk is more quickly accessible than the
outer parts of the disk, thus giving a little more performance).

And no, you won't be able to install Oracle on this system without more
drive space.  You'll be alright with web, mail, and something like MySQL
until the machine gets busy, then you'll either be piecemeal upgrading, or
just breaking down and getting a whole new sys.

Cheers,
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