[SunHELP] Standards for OS installation

[Adrian.Florea at alcatel.ro]

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> Tue, 24 Aug 2004 @ 16:50 -0400, velociraptor said:
>
> > At a minimum, if I have the disk space, I slice up space:
> >
> > / 1GB
>
> Why so large for root?

I use the same, but - indeed - is a little large ;)

>
> > /tmp 1GB (more if the machine has a lot of RAM or there
> > will be a lot of users using the system)
>
> Why so large for /tmp and why more if there is a lot of RAM?
>
> I have gotten so I use memory for /tmp these days, if the system has
> room for it.

For swap space I use a size between 3x and 1x physical RAM size (but not
more than 4 Gb).

>
> I have mixed feelings about it though.
>
> > /usr   4GB

I use 2 Gb ...

>
> About what I do for most OS I use: Solaris, Linux (Slackware), and most
> of the *BSD systems.
>
> > /var   2GB (preferrably 4GB)
>
> I usually do 2GB, and anything which requires more I like to keep in its
> own place anyway.

the same 2 GB

>
> For example, programs like MySQL, Apache, and Squid often default to
> using /var, and I don't like that.  I don't believe any of those belongs
> in /var.
>
> > Of course, these sorts of things are SA dependent--I would venture
> > to say it's dependent upon how you, as an individual SA, have been
> > burned. :-)
>
> True... though I think every SA that's actually done anything has been
> burned by putting everything in the root.
>
> I actually was at NASA two years ago and the head SA there was wanting
> to change the standard setups *TOWARD* a single large root partition.
>
>
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> philosophy, but not philosophers." ]
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Adrian