Re: How to partition 300GB hard drive?

Thad Floryan wrote:
On Sep 12, 6:48 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
SQ wrote:
This is in Solaris 10.
Suggestions on how to partition a 300GB SAS hard drive during the
initial install?
[...]
Allow 10 GB for / plus /usr. Another 10 GB for /var and 4 GB for
swap. You can increase the size of either / or /var if you need
more. Use the rest as you will. The allocations for / plus /usr
and for swap are quite generous; if you anticipate a shortage of
disk space you could trim those 10 GB partitions down to 4 GB each.

Redoing the disk layout can be a real PITA. You have to back up
everything, repartition, and then restore everything. I shudder
just thinking about it!

Precisely. Which is why I wonder why you recommended such small
partitions. Don't do much patching, huh? :-)

Unless one has a crystal ball and *knows* the future disk space
requirements, I've found it safest over the years to ignore the
20-year-old partitioning requirements of SunOS 4 and simply make
one large root partition to avoid artificial fences, barriers and
other impediments to computer usage. If any user(s) cause problems,
enable quotas. Here's how I partitioned my recent Solaris 10 box
last month:

bash-3.00# prtconf | grep Memory
Memory size: 3967 Megabytes

bash-3.00# df -h
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0d0s1 139G 5.7G 132G 5% /
/devices 0K 0K 0K 0% /devices
ctfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/contract
proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc
mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab
swap 6.7G 900K 6.7G 1% /etc/svc/volatile
objfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/object
/usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap2.so.1
139G 5.7G 132G 5% /lib/libc.so.1
fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd
swap 6.7G 80K 6.7G 1% /tmp
swap 6.7G 24K 6.7G 1% /var/run


Where did you put your users?
.

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