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partitions

rmedidi — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:13:26 GMT

hi everybody

how i can use 37 gb hard disk for installing qmail in fedora.

please tell me how much space i should allocate for certain directories

/ =
root =
boot =
user =
home =
var =
tmp =

Re: partitions

Stuart Browne — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:24:40 GMT

If it's just going to be a mail server, then something like this:

swap - 2GB (or so, depending on memory)
/ - 5GB
/boot - 100MB
/var - the rest

/tmp shouldn't be used much so no need to separate it. Unless you want to make /usr a read-only filesystem, no need to seperate. As for /home, well, if it's going to be a mail server, then you're not going to have much in there either.

/root (as against just /) should never be a seperate filesystem.

So that leaves /var with all of qmail's queues.

It's roughly how I do sendmail servers.

Re: partitions

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:30:48 GMT

The partitions sizes recommended above are good. You can use LVM, so if you ever run out of space on /var, you can add more disks to the volume group and extend the /var logical volume.