Re: Partitioning Help Needed

["Bob Staaf" <rstaaf cfl rr com>]

>>On Monday, November 12, 2001 7:13 AM,  "Bob Staaf" <rstaaf cfl rr com>
wrote:
>>
>> Please forgive the newbie question but, I was wondering if you all could
>> point me to some good resources on optimizing partitioning for Linux,
>> specifically RHL 7.2 which will be used strictly as a web server.  Any
links
>> or advice you all could share would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>
>On Monday, November 12, 2001 4:01 PM Walter R. Worth Replied
>
>Hi Bob -- I haven't upgraded 7.1 to 7.2 yet but I will be doing so later
this week.  I've read >your previous post where you want to install one of
the available web server installations.  If >you chose this type of
installation, it will delete "every" partition on your hard drive including
>Windows.  The automatic partition utility partitions the hard drive for the
amount of space >needed by a particular server installation in addition to a
swap file.

<snip>

Walter,

     The problem with accepting defaults is that you have to take what you
get.  In the case of partitioning when you select a "Server" install, Red
Hat has assumed that you will have users like a file server and sets up the
partitioning accordingly making a rather large /usr volume which is a waste
for a web server.  For a web server or any server where you do not have
users they recommend doing a "Custom" install and they have a bare
partitioning scheme they suggest that is as follows and done manually
through disk druid.

/boot   20-30MB
swap  2x RAM
/          remaining space

This is the scheme they recommended when I called support.  The only problem
I have is that the physical RAM in my server is 2gb so that would mean a 4gb
swap partition but, there is a limit of ~2Gb for swap so they suggested that
I create (2) 2Gb swap partitions.  I am not sure what effect this will have,
if any?

Thanks to everyone for the replies so far, most helpful :)

Bob