On Sun, 7 Feb 1999 03:54:48 +1100, Carey F. Cox <carey@tabasco.lamar.edu> wrote:>Our department needed a new file server for the computer lab, which >has Win95 workstations, and I was tasked with the chore. Being a >Linux advocate, I proposed a Linux file server running samba. Well, >we are ready to order and I need to specify a partitioning strategy. >I was hoping that some of you that might have already gone through >this process, could impart some of your wisdom to me.I'd recommend one partition for swap and one for everything else. The only reason to further partition would be to insure that the boot files remain below the 1024 cylinder boundary. Having one partition eliminates the need to guess how big to make individual partitions. You can use quotas to control the size of user home directories. Ken mailto:shiva@well.com http://www.well.com/user/shiva/ http://www.e-scrub.com/cgi-bin/wpoison/wpoison.cgi (Death to Spam!)
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 01:08:25PM +1100, Kenneth Porter wrote:> >Our department needed a new file server for the computer lab, which > >has Win95 workstations, and I was tasked with the chore. Being a > >Linux advocate, I proposed a Linux file server running samba. Well, > >we are ready to order and I need to specify a partitioning strategy. > >I was hoping that some of you that might have already gone through > >this process, could impart some of your wisdom to me. > > I'd recommend one partition for swap and one for everything else. The > only reason to further partition would be to insure that the boot files > remain below the 1024 cylinder boundary. > > Having one partition eliminates the need to guess how big to make > individual partitions. You can use quotas to control the size of user > home directories.Hi I would use an extra partition for /home, for /, something like /samba for your shares and a swap partition. Greetings, Florian Pflug
On Tue, 09 Feb 1999 10:19:02 -0200, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:>Kenneth Porter wrote: >> >> I'd recommend one partition for swap and one for everything else. The >> only reason to further partition would be to insure that the boot files >> remain below the 1024 cylinder boundary. > >But doesn't LILO handle this too? I've never had any problem with kernel >upgrading, no matter how big/full the HD is.LILO, because it uses the BIOS for disk access, only handles files that lie completely below the 1024 cylinder boundary. With geometry remapping in the BIOS, this can still encompass most of an 8gb disk, but it's machine-dependent. If you have a large disk, you should create a small /boot partition at the beginning of the disk just to hold the kernel and related files needed to get the disk drivers loaded. This insures that LILO and the kernel can reach any file needed before the disk driver is available. Once the kernel starts using the disk driver, the BIOS is no longer needed and the 1024 cylinder restriction no longer replies. Therefore everything else but the swap and /boot can be on one large partition. So on a small disk, you can have just a root and swap partition. On a large disk with more than 1024 cylinders, you need /boot, root, and swap. BTW, there's a good discussion of this in file:/usr/doc/lilo-0.20/README (RH5.2 distribution). Ken mailto:shiva@well.com http://www.well.com/user/shiva/ http://www.e-scrub.com/cgi-bin/wpoison/wpoison.cgi (Death to Spam!)
Kenneth Porter wrote:> > <carey@tabasco.lamar.edu> wrote: > > >Our department needed a new file server for the computer lab, which > >has Win95 workstations, and I was tasked with the chore. Being a > >Linux advocate, I proposed a Linux file server running samba. Well, > >we are ready to order and I need to specify a partitioning strategy. > >I was hoping that some of you that might have already gone through > >this process, could impart some of your wisdom to me. > > I'd recommend one partition for swap and one for everything else. The > only reason to further partition would be to insure that the boot files > remain below the 1024 cylinder boundary.But doesn't LILO handle this too? I've never had any problem with kernel upgrading, no matter how big/full the HD is. -- ___THE___ One man alone cannot fight the future. USE LINUX! \ \ / / _______________________________________________ \ V / |Juan Carlos Castro y Castro | \ / |jcastro@pcshop.com.br | / \ |Linuxeiro, alvinegro, X-Phile e Carioca Folgado| / ^ \ |Diretor de Inform?tica e Eventos Sobrenaturais | / / \ \ |da E-RACE CORPORATION | ~~~ ~~~ ----------------------------------------------- RACER