Guidelines - Novell OPEN ENTERPRISE SERVER 2 SP2 Installation Manual

Guidelines

Table 3-2 presents guidelines for setting up disk partitions on your OES server. For more
information, see "Installation Settings" (http://www.novell.com/documentation/sles10/
book_sle_reference/data/sec_i_yast2_proposal.html)
Administration Guide (http://www.novell.com/documentation/sles10/book_sle_reference/data/
book_sle_reference.html)
Partition Guidelines
Table 3-2
Partition
Other Considerations
to Create
/boot Depending on the hardware, it might be useful to create a boot partition (
boot mechanism and the Linux kernel.
You should create this partition at the start of the disk and make it at least 8 MB or 1 cylinder.
As a rule of thumb, always create such a partition if it was included in the YaST original
proposal. If you are unsure about this, create a boot partition to be on the safe side.
IMPORTANT: In a Xen VM installation, format the
system. For a technical explanation of why this is necessary, see
Journaling File Systems (http://www.novell.com/documentation/sles10/xen_admin/data/
sec_xen_filesystem.html)" in the
documentation/sles10/xen_admin/data/bookinfo.html)
swap This should normally be twice the size of the RAM installed on your server, up to 1 GB. If you
create a /boot
partition first.
Define this partition as 3 GB or more. In all cases, create this partition after you create the
/
partition. Keep in mind that this root (
swap
that you don't specifically create.
This contains system logs and should therefore be a separate partition to avoid impacting
/var
system and service stability because of a disk-full condition.
Define this partition as 4 GB or more.
/opt Some (mostly commercial) programs install their data in
Define this partition as 4 GB or more.
Creating this as a separate partition makes updating the server easier if you need to reinstall
/usr
the system from the beginning.
Define this partition as 4 GB or more.
/srv This contains the Web and FTP servers.
Consider making this a separate partition to avoid having someone flood the disk by accident
or on purpose, which impacts system and service stability.
User Home directories go here.
/home
Consider making this a separate partition to avoid having someone flood the disk by accident
or on purpose, which impacts system and service stability.
You can allocate the rest of the disk space to this partition.
Virtualization with Xen (http://www.novell.com/
partition, create the swap partition second. Otherwise, create the
in the SLES 10 SP3 Installation and
/boot partition using Ext2 as the file
"Paravirtual Mode and
guide.
) partition contains all of the partitions listed below
/
/opt .
/boot ) to hold the
swap
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