Re: Newbie partitioning question

mechdan_at_yahoo.com
Date: 08/04/05 

Date: 4 Aug 2005 09:56:39 -0700

Marten Kemp wrote:
>mechdan@yahoo.com wrote:
>>[...] Even with
>>a sloppy full graphical desktop install, 2.5gigs is
>>plenty of space for the entire OS (including home).

>Ah, gentlemen, I didn't want to start an argument here.
>Re-reading my original post I neglected to mention that I
>have 12 4.5g drives in an external box attached to an IBM
>ServeRAID controller for shared disk space, therefore the
>entire 10g IDE drive is available for the system files and
>swap space. Sorry.

Ah. In that case, I'd recommend:

hda1 9.5gig /
hda5 .5gig swap

When partitioning, make sure to create swap in a
"secondary partition" rather than a "primary partition".
I've found that grub sometimes gets confused if there's
more than one primary partition.

>If I add a /home partition to my original scheme (I'm not
>exactly why I need one),

You don't need one, for a file server.

>would the resultant configuration
>work? "Work," in this context, means "Debian will install and
>probably run in this amount of space." I have lots of 10g IDE
>drives so if space is wasted I really don't care.

It will most definitely work.

>Stan, would an SMB server be a better learning experience than
>an NFS server ("better" in terms of the number of organizations
>using them, and therefore enhancing my future employment
>probabilities)? I think I'll wait on naslite for a bit.

You should run both a SAMBA server and an NFS server.
The Debian install will install both (during the install's
package selection phase, mark the "File Server" check
box). Actually, NFS is installed in any case, but it
will only run if you actually export at least one NFS
share.

NFS is good for sharing files between *nix boxes. My
experience is that it's about twice as fast as SAMBA,
so it's definitely worth using even if you set up SAMBA.
Since you intend to use it with some Linux machines,
you'll want to use NFS.

SAMBA is what you need to share files via Windows
Networking. It's what you need to set up so your
Windows computers can access the network shares as
if your server were another Windows computer.

Isaac Kuo

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