Hard Disk Partition size to crate Name Server.

gardenair · 01-24-2011, 07:59 AM

Hi
I want to configure Name Server i.e DNS to my red hat linux box in a production enviromnt.The ram is 2 GB and Hard Disk size is 200 GB.
How much space should i give /var,/usr,
/boot,/root and home partotion.
May be i am wronge in partition point of view while installing fresh reh hat but to install for home purpose and server end is different.So kindly guide me the hard disk partion size to ready it for name server.
Thanks,
garden

acid_kewpie · 01-24-2011, 08:17 AM

a name server, assuming you're not logging extensively, would use about 1mb of disk space in itself for your zone files. You need to make no special considerations here. All the bind packages will be about an extra 10mb of binaries. If you do want to do logging specifically, which is not common really, then you might want to make /var its own partition, but even then that's a hell of a lot of log files to fill a 200gb disk. A default partition, next, next, finish will, in reality, be fine.

gardenair · 01-24-2011, 08:50 AM

Thanks for the reply.one thing i want to clear that some users make /usr partion.
This is a question apart from the scop of my thread that what kind of data is in /usr directorty.where does all applications are install by default like open office.
Thanks

acid_kewpie · 01-24-2011, 09:01 AM

you're free to make a /usr if you wish, with so much disk space you'll never care either way if it is JUST a DNS server. give it 50gb if you want and it'll be fine. That is where most software is installed, yes, but I'd you're you're not installing openoffice on a DNS server...