🚀 go-pugleaf

The main difference from my point is that with one / filesystem, it *all*
needs to be fscked (man fsck) before the system will come up after an
abnormal shutdown. / only needs to be around 128mb. I go for something like
this for flexibility;

/            128mb    (/etc /dev et al)
swap        generally 512mb
/tmp        512mb
/usr        3000mb    (all programs and binaries and local stuff in
/usr/local)
/var        1000mb    (logging)
/home    1000mb    (home directories etc etc)
/u01       1500mb    (large applications eg Oracle)
/u02      the rest        (eg oracle data files, mysql datafiles)

this way, the root filesystem is easy to backup also.


Cheers,


Brian.


"Jacko" <jacko@fastnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3A47F3DB.B676BA34@fastnet.co.uk...
> Hi,
>
> I have built a new Debian2.2 for my personal website. I am the only
> local user and I can use the whole 9G hard disk. It will run DNS,
> Apache, qmail and mySQL only.
>
> When I install the Debian, I created the root filesystem only:
> /boot 100MB
> / 8GB
> Swap 128MB x 8 (cuz, I've got 4 x 128MB physical memory)
>
> After I read the "The Linux System Administrators' Guide", it suggest us
> to add the following filesystems /bin, /lib, /etc, /dev, /home etc.
>
> My question is...
>
> Why the book suggests different filesystems instead of one root
> filesystem"/"? (It looks easier to handle one root filesystem?!)
> Which method is works better?
>
> Thanks for helping me. Wish you a Merry Christmas.
>
> Warm Regards,
> Jack