Often I will put up the following partitions: / 0.5 gig - 1 gig /var 2 gig - 10 gigs (depending upon how much space you will use for a web server) /usr everything else For small (or no) web servers, 2 gigs on /var is great, but for large web server requirements, I'd go closer to 10 gigs. Garrett Krueger Brady Hegberg wrote: > I mainly have experience with setting up webservers and the Redhat > default server partition setup is pretty good for that but I've had > trouble with a couple things: > > 1. Redhat makes /var very small which isn't so bad except a few apps > like to put their data in /var (like mySQL and Apache.) So if you want > to leave those in the default places I'd give /var at least a couple > gigs. > > 2. Even if you make /var big enough eventually something will happen > that will make one of your log files go crazy and fill up your entire > /var partition which will kill any applications (mySQL) that use it to > store data. So I'd think seriously about giving /var/log it's own > partition off someplace where it can't take any other processes down > with it. > > I'd be interested to know how other people handle this stuff. I suppose > a production database should usually run on it's own partition but it > seems like overkill when the database is 5MB and not growing. > > Brady > > > Can someone please give me some advice partitioning a Red Hat 8.0 > > install? > > I have a 60Gig hard drive and want to do a server install. > > EventuallyI want to add VMWare for several Windows versions. I am > > confused as to the amount of space and how many partitions. > > Thank you > > Chuck Licha > > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list