[SunHELP] Solaris 8 slicing advice

Only 4GB of disk and it's going to be a mail server?  Sounds too small to
me.

Anyway, I'd recommend one big slice for /, including /opt and the other
standard root directories.  Dump the automounted /export and keep the home
directories on the root partition (unless the users get shell accounts -
then split them out).

Make a separate partion to hold the log files for the http process and a
separate partition for the /var/spool directory to segment off the mail
files.  Make sure they have a cron process to manage system log files on the
root partition.

The goal is to keep user & web activity from filling the root filesystem
and/or the /tmp filesystem.  This usually leads to "very bad things" (tm).

-Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: wade chy [mailto:wchy65 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:50 AM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SunHELP] Solaris 8 slicing advice


Hi All
I am setting up a Sun Ultra 2 Enterprise box for a
small web hosting company. The box has
4.0 GB HD. It will serv as a public web server, public
mail server and I need to install 
a database server on it too. When I am installing
Solaris 8, it gave me a choice of the 
following slicing:
/	55 MB
/var	37 MB
/usr	800 MB
swap	52 MB
/export	3.1 GB


I have changed the slicing to :
/	55 MB
/var	1020 MB
/usr	825 MB
/opt	24 MB
swap	1024 mb
/export	900 MB
/usr/openwin	360 MB

Is there any way to change the slicing without
reinstalling Solaris 8? Or is this a good
setup for web, mail, database (possibly oracle) server
considering the limited amount of diskspace I have
to play with? I am looking for advice / recommendation
since I am relatively new to Solaris.
Thank you for your help.

Wade Chy.
New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo!
http://sbc.yahoo.com
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