Partition sizes for DNS server?

[Albert Meyer]

Yes, there was a typo, and it is a 2G. I had left out the decimal points in 
.5 and 1.0.

Here's how much space is used now:

16      ./lost+found
5724    ./home
6072    ./var
0       ./proc
8       ./tmp
108     ./dev
3364    ./etc
4620    ./bin
2664    ./boot
20020   ./lib
12      ./mnt
4       ./opt
48      ./root
4100    ./sbin
206888  ./usr

Which adds up to:

/               34M
swap            128M
/usr            206M
/var            6M
/home           6M
/tmp            0M

I haven't heard of making a separate partition for /usr/local before. What 
ends up in there? At this point (after installing and configuring Bind) it 
only contains empty directories. I'm going to be the only user on this 
machine, and the only thing in my home directory (besides preference files) 
is downloaded rpm's. Do I need a bunch of space in /home, or should I use 
it elsewhere? I'm wondering if I should leave a lot of space in /var 
instead, as I'm planning to set the logging levels fairly high.

At 02:46 PM 5/24/00 -0400, Harold Pritchett wrote:
>I think you have a typo somewhere in your above list.  /etc should not
>be a filesystem.  /usr should.
>
>I am assuming that the 2GB size for your disk is correct.
>
>I'd do something like this:
>
>Initially, define over-sized partitions.
>
>/               64Mb
>swap            128Mb
>/usr            1024Mb
>/var            256Mb
>/tmp            128Mb
>/usr/local      256Mb
>/home           the rest (192mb)
>
>Now, do an install of RH 6.2, selecting all of the options you will need.
>
>look at the output of the "df" command and see how much space is used
>in each of your partitions.  Give yourself a 20 % cushion in the /usr
>partition, and do it again.  Leave everything the same except for the
>size of the /usr partition.  Space recovered from it will go into /home.
>
>
>This will give you optimal utilization in /usr, and protect your system
>from filling up /var, /tmp/ or /home.
>
>By putting /home and /usr/local in their own filesystems, you can
>re-install the systems as many times as you like without having to
>reload your opplications in /usr/local and your user files in /home.
>
>Not the only way, but it's what I usually do.
>
>Harold