Request DA installation guidelines (website)

[Digitalsoul]

Prior to installing DirectAdmin I consulted the Install (http://www.directadmin.com/install.html) page at the official DirectAdmin website. My only problem during a clean (base) installation on Debian was the partition scheme.

On DA website:

We suggest a simple partition structure of:

/boot 40 meg
swap 2 x memory
/ rest of drive

For a less simple partition structure:

/boot 40 meg
swap 2 x memory
/tmp 1 Gig. Highly recommended to mount /tmp with noexec,nosuid in /etc/fstab
/ 6-10 Gig
/var 8-20 gig. Emails, logs and databases stored here
/usr 5-12 gig. Just DA data, source code, frontpage.
/home rest of drive. Roughly 80% for user data. Mount with nosuid in /etc/fstab if possible.

Would be nice if the install website mentioned if the partitions must be primary/logical and the format ext2/ext3. Perhaps this was not mentioned because of the different linux flavors?

[nobaloney]

Would be nice if the install website mentioned if the partitions must be primary/logical and the format ext2/ext3. Perhaps this was not mentioned because of the different linux flavors?
I don't know what you mean by primary/logical. DirectAdmin doesn't require primary partitions. As far as I understand partitions there are only two kinds of partitions: primary and logical. DirectAdmin should work fine with any format supported by the OS distribution you're using.

Before the author of ReiserFS killed his wife (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser) we used to use ReiserFS for our MailDir directories as it's much more efficient with small files.

Jeff