On Sunday 11 February 2007 18:07, Janus wrote:
I am preparing a small server for my house hold with openSUSE 10.2. It will primarily work as a file server (samba) with each users own ~home, as well as some shares for mp3s etc. Maybe I will also install Apache if I can find a nice web based "jukebox" for accessing mp3s to various client computers.
My disk drive is 250 GB. I am thinking about something like:
swap 1 GB / 10 GB /home 240 GB
1) Is is OK with one 10 GB / for both software, logs etc? Or should I give e.g. /var its own partition?
2) Should I consider a separate /srv partition for mp3s etc, or will I do just fine but placing shared folders in a sparate home directory which everybody in my household can access? I am asking because YaST suggest placering https docs in /src/web/ (which would be the same as my /)
Regarding whether we should separate certain directory from /, the rule of thumb is that if we want to be able to format/reinstall Linux without having the hassle of backing up/moving data to other machine first, then we should separate it. Your partition plan is OK. Regarding the web directory we can always change it into /home/www (whichever). On a side note, it's even better if we use LVM, so that when in the future we run out of space, we can "expand" it into another disk seamlessly. HTH, -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 8:21pm up 0:21, 2.6.16.21-0.8-default GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org