[opensuse] router partitions
I have an old 33 Gb scsi IBM xeon. The really old black ones that weigh 20 kilos and make a hell of a noise. I want to use it as a router with squid, dansguardian and firewall. It would be part of a 21 node lan sharing around 60Gb of files via nfs. I can set it up using a keyboard and monitor but after that it would have to be accessed by ssh. I thought I'd just let yast do it and not let it have a separate /home but then I read so much stuff about /var for squid and everyone suddenly becomes a router expert. Can anyone give me a one liner as to how I partition it? Or tell me where to put it:-) L x -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
lynn wrote:
I have an old 33 Gb scsi IBM xeon. The really old black ones that weigh 20 kilos and make a hell of a noise. I want to use it as a router with squid, dansguardian and firewall. It would be part of a 21 node lan sharing around 60Gb of files via nfs. I can set it up using a keyboard and monitor but after that it would have to be accessed by ssh. I thought I'd just let yast do it and not let it have a separate /home but then I read so much stuff about /var for squid and everyone suddenly becomes a router expert.
Can anyone give me a one liner as to how I partition it? Or tell me where to put it:-)
I would allocate 10G for root, 1G swap space and the rest for /var. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (13.0°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Per Jessen wrote:
lynn wrote:
I have an old 33 Gb scsi IBM xeon. The really old black ones that weigh 20 kilos and make a hell of a noise. I want to use it as a router with squid, dansguardian and firewall. It would be part of a 21 node lan sharing around 60Gb of files via nfs. I can set it up using a keyboard and monitor but after that it would have to be accessed by ssh. I thought I'd just let yast do it and not let it have a separate /home but then I read so much stuff about /var for squid and everyone suddenly becomes a router expert.
Can anyone give me a one liner as to how I partition it? Or tell me where to put it:-)
I would allocate 10G for root, 1G swap space and the rest for /var.
How much swapping will a router do? -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
James Knott wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
I would allocate 10G for root, 1G swap space and the rest for /var.
How much swapping will a router do?
A plain router won't do any swapping, but this machine is also intended to run squid, perhaps other things too. Having a 1Gb swap partition won't hurt. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (11.2°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
lynn wrote:
I have an old 33 Gb scsi IBM xeon. The really old black ones that weigh 20 kilos and make a hell of a noise. I want to use it as a router with squid, dansguardian and firewall. It would be part of a 21 node lan sharing around 60Gb of files via nfs. I can set it up using a keyboard and monitor but after that it would have to be accessed by ssh. I thought I'd just let yast do it and not let it have a separate /home but then I read so much stuff about /var for squid and everyone suddenly becomes a router expert.
Can anyone give me a one liner as to how I partition it? Or tell me where to put it:-) L x
There's nothing special about partitioning a Linux box for use as a router. I have done just that here. Since you don't normally have a lot of users, you don't have to worry about a separate /home. You might want a partition for /var & /tmp, to keep any overflows from killing the system. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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