Depending on the purpose of the server/box is really what depends on what areas need focusing. If no users are really going to be on the system /home can me small. If it is a web server /var/www needs a lot of free play. If this is a mail or print server /var/mail or /var/spool needs the focus. If it is a general purpose server spreading it all across the space is wise. You have to ask yourself how much space you really need. Unless you are running Google, or some business; or have a hell of a lot of multimedia why is a single 3TB drive needed? You can get 2 1.5 TB's which will "technically" increase your speed because of read and write times and having to seek for data. Of course consumer drives run at ~ 7400RPMs and server drives are ~15k RPMs. Here is how I would break it up. Remember you don't have to partition the whole drive on install. Leaving free space for later is recommended too. 3TB ******************************************** 10MB -- EE partition for GPT and MBR 250 MB for /boot 5GB for / 30GB /var Swap -- 8GB or more depending on how much ram is installed. If you plan to suspend/hibernate your swap space MUST be larger than RAM. 8GB /tmp More if you compile a lot or use /tmpfs for things like Firefox, etc. ***Breaking these above 2 areas out allow for encryption of those areas 30GB for /usr 3GB / 1TB for /home Leave the remainder for later additions OR fill up the drive and use LVM to plan for future growth. gkey On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:00 PM, <tclug-list-request at mn-linux.org> wrote: > Send tclug-list mailing list submissions to > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > tclug-list-request at mn-linux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > tclug-list-owner at mn-linux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of tclug-list digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. how much space for partitions /, /home, /var, etc? (Mike Miller) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 11:49:45 -0500 (CDT) > From: Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> > To: TCLUG List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Subject: [tclug-list] how much space for partitions /, /home, /var, > etc? > Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205041133401.22297 at taxa.psych.umn.edu> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII > > I know that the way most people partition hard drives now is by making a > partition for swap and one for /, and that might be all they do. That is > convenient in some ways because when a directory needs more space, it can > access it, if it exists. On the other hand, with more partitions, a > directory can only grow to the size of the partition, so partitions limit > the growth of directories. > > Of course, limiting the growth of directories is often a good thing. > Without partition boundaries constraining growth, if a log file in /var is > growing at a rate of 1 MB/sec, it won't take long for it to fill up all of > the free space on the entire hard drive, and when that happens it may > bring down the system. So maybe I should use a /var partition to prevent > excessive log growth from shutting down the system, but I don't know what > is an appropriate size for /var? It looks like my current /var is only > using about 1 GB, but HDD space is cheap enough that I could give it 10 GB > and not feel like I'm missing anything. What would you recommend? > > I'll want to put most of my space into /home, but how much do you think I > should leave for /? On my current system, / (after excluding both /var > and /home) is only using about 54 GB, and it seems to have a lot of extra > programs in it that I wouldn't use in the future, so I think 100 GB should > be enough. What do you think? Is 100 GB for / good enough? > > If I used 10 GB for /var and 100 GB for /, that would leave about 2.6 TB > for /home. These 3TB drives seem to be the cheapest option, per byte, > right now, so I expect a lot of you will have them soon, if you don't > already. > > Mike > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > End of tclug-list Digest, Vol 89, Issue 8 > ***************************************** -- --- Gregory Key https://gm5729.wordpress.com/ Please conserve paper and print this email out ONLY if necessary.