[Asterisk-Users] Linux Partitions (before asterisk install)

[Kristian Kielhofner]

Johnny Voice wrote:
> For my asterisk installation in my lab, I will install the Linux ES v4 
> distribution (with kernel 2.6) onto a Dell Power Edge 1650 with ~16GB of 
> Raid-1 hard disk space.
>  
> Before installing Linux, what should I set the following disk partitions 
> to?:
> (root)/
> /boot
> swap
> /usr
> /home
> /tmp
> /var
>  
> The Dell boot up disk (i.e. the Dell OpenManage disk, Configure Hard 
> Drive section), shows this as the default:
> (root)/       1024MB
> /boot         100MB
> swap         2048MB
> /usr           5726MB
> /home       3547MB
> /tmp          512MB
> /var           512MB
>  
> Do you think I should do something like this?
> (root)/       512MB
> /boot         100MB
> swap         2048MB
> /usr           10000MB
> /home       2282MB
> /tmp          256MB
> /var           2057MB
>  
> Thanks.
>  
> Tom

Tom,

	For an Asterisk server, /var will grow the most (by default).  You 
should make that your largest partition, or use symlinks or some other 
way to change the things that make /var grow (voicemail, CDR's, etc).

-- 
Kristian Kielhofner