Ehlo
Usually I don't really care about hard disk partitioning, because most
of my computers are just workstations. One big /, a swap partition and
sometimes a small /boot partition. However, now I want to install a
server and I'm not quite sure my partition scheme is chosen wisely:
/boot <- 25 mb
swap <- 1 GB (server has 1 gb ram)
/ <- 2 GB
/usr/local <- 500 MB
/home <- The rest
Point of /usr/local is for all custom compiled software (not the
packages from the CRUX repositories). Now this all looks good, but there
are 2 problems with this setup:
1) /var is on the root volume (/), which is 2 GB in size. Ofcourse, when
the system is under attack or some other reason /var fills up, my / is
full and this could lead to a dangerous situation (not being able to log
in anymore). Also the logs are on the same volume. Would it be wise to
create under /home for example /home/system/logs and let /var/log be a
symlink to that?
2) /tmp can fill up too. I would consider mounting /tmp with tmpfs, 512
MB in size, is that enough for server purposes? (Web/mail/general purpose)
Thanks for your advice.
Glenn
