partition size question?
 

i am going to rebuild my RH9 box tonight/tomorrow for several reasons, but i have a large question before i begin.

i want to know what partitions, types they need to be, and how large to make them.

i am planing on making the following, but dont know what type to make them:

/boot 500m (can i make this smaller?)
/ 6G (just incase i bloat the kernal)
/swap 512M (i have 256M ram)
/var 10G (going to be hosting a WWW with vids on it)
/home remaining space

with that setup, what file types do i need to use, are those ok, do i need to add any other types of partitions, if so what and how big, and why.

thank you very much for the info.

newbie linux user, loving the power and growing less newbish every day.

Some thoughts:

- /boot can definitely be smaller (~128m should be enough for anything reasonable)

The swap partition size is ok (2x RAM is standard).

Where is the DocumentRoot for your website? Is it / or /var? If it's /, then you probably want a bigger / partition, and a much smaller /var partition, to catch the logs. If it's /var/www or such, then a 10g /var is probably ok, although you can probably deal with less /. Keep in mind that /var is typically where logs are stored, and if you expect TONS of traffic and you want to log it, the size of /var should reflect that.

great, thanks.

i ended going with the following:

/boot 100m
/ 8G
/var 10G
/swap 512m
/home rest here.