Partition sizes and mount points

Question

Are there any guidelines or recommendations for partition sizes, either absolute (MB, GB) or relative (%) for a fresh NOWS SBE 2.5 server for general office use - file, print, G'wise email, ifolder.
Which partitions should be separate?
I have about 450 GB to play with: 140 GB mirrored, 420 GB RAID 5
Thanks, James.

Answer 1

Originally Posted by jmclean
Are there any guidelines or recommendations for partition sizes, either absolute (MB, GB) or relative (%) for a fresh NOWS SBE 2.5 server for general office use - file, print, G'wise email, ifolder.
Which partitions should be separate?
I have about 450 GB to play with: 140 GB mirrored, 420 GB RAID 5
Thanks, James.
Hello James,
Refer to the Novell Open Workgroup Suite Small Business Edition 2.5 Issues Readme
2.3 Partitioning NOWS SBE 2.5
The pre-configured partitions selected by the install are currently the only supported partitions available. Although you can change file system types to increase swap partition size, new partitions are not supported.
The default partitions are:
/boot
swap
/ (root)
All data is in the "/" partition unless you intend to use NSS. NSS Pools must be created on an uninitialized disk or uninitialized logical volume so a LUN on your RAID5 array would be a logical candidate. For more information about installing NSS see the Issues Readme section 2.8 Installing Novell Storage Services.
Should you decide to deviate from the standard partitioning, the partition sizes you choose would depend on the number of applications you intend to install and the amount of user data you need to store and not so much on the number of users on the system. Every deployment is different!