recomended hard disk partitions?

[sHuKKo]

Hi

#1 - I will install Direct Admin to a test box.
I just wonder what are the recomended hard drive partitioning before installaton.

I normally use

/boot ~ 40 Mb
/swap ~ 1GB (512Mb memory on box)
/ ~ for the rest

But as I understand DA requires a Home partition itself?

I will use 2x40GB Ide Drives on my box
1 for main system 1 for backup purposes..

Please recommend me the identical custom partitioning for Direct Admin.

#2 - I will install RH 8.0 On my test box. I really appreciate if someone sends a kickstart configuration file for Direct Admin ready Rh 8.0 Installation..

[DirectAdmin Sales]

John will reply with a comprehensive partition scheme shortly. I just wanted to add that we no longer require a /home partition. A /home directory will work instead.

Mark

[sHuKKo]

Mark I have just noticed that.

I Installed direct admin without a home partiton without any problems.

Install script just threw some error messeges when installing that it can not find a /home partition in /etc/fstab and mtab but continues without any problems.

I use my default partition schema in my first messege.

Also my DirectADmin is already installed and working perfectly except the ftp error messege which I already read about in other threads.

I am playing with my Direct Admin right now and I must say I am Really impressed about the capabilities of it. Your demo is only showing half of it.

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

The scheme you used will work fine.

I see you've already got it running, but I'll make a few comments for anyone else who may read this...

This is assuming a drive around 30+ gig..

/usr ~5 Gig or more
/boot ~ 40 Meg
/ 1 Gig or more
swap 2*ram
/var 4-10 Gig or more (used for email and logs)
/home fill the rest of the drive. Should use the majority of the space.

Now you should note that if you have a really small drive, or you're worried about filling up one partition, you can absolutely combine different partions into one.. (mainly /var and /home)... Most vps system only have one / partition, and that scheme seems to work fine.

Bottom line, you should be able to use whatever you want.

With the release of 1.05 20 days ago, you can set the partition that will be used for quotas, so it can really be anything.

John

[The Prohacker]

John,

Just wondering for security reasons.. Does DirectAdmin support a /tmp partition with noexec turned on?

[DirectAdmin Support]

I don't see why not... DirectAdmin uses the /home/tmp folder, so as long as none of the other services need it, sure.

John

*Note: this has never been tried :)

[neorder]

you can set the partition that will be used for quotas, so it can really be anything.

where do i set quotas in which partition?

thanks.