Hi,
To use squid i want to install linux in my 200 GB hard disk. I need guidance regarding to installation phase. A server which will be dedicated for squid proxy what things should I keep while installing my red hat linux operating system.I mean the partition sizes for swap ,root ,boot and any partion for squid cache should I need during making partitions ?
thanks for help
garden

well if I do as

boot - 100-150M
/ - 200M
/usr - 50G
/tmp - 2G
/var - 100G (since squid is going to store lost of caching files)
/home - Rest of the space

what is your opinion ?

OMG man!

hey do you have like a 40GByte drive laying around? Unless you're running Varnish or Squid in front of a facebook or IBM I don't see you needing .2 TB

But then again, storage is cheap

/boot = 2GB (ext2)

SWAP = 4GB (type 82)

/ = the rest (XFS) - unless you really have a need to save your /usr/local /usr/src /usr/share /var /opt and /home dirs on separate partitions, in which case you might want a partition to mount your /home /opt /usr and /var directories, and maybe even break out /usr/*** into the dirs shown above.

All you're doing is caching html pages and other small items, for the most part.

And I certainly wouldn't use Redhat - arggh!

If you really find that you *must* use an RPM based distro, then I recommend you look at CentOS - otherwise, man up and use Debian, Arch, or Slackware

Hope that helps