Re: [FW1] Partition for Solaris

[Drew Simonis <dsimonis@FW1-NOSPAMfiderus.com>]

Brian Tan Wee Beng wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>   I'm installing CP on a Solaris machine for the first time.Can someone
> supply me with info on how to partition the harddisk,for example size per
> partition???My customer requirement is to store the logs for a year but i'm
> not too sure where exactly are the logs store.Is it in the /opt parition or
> /var partition??Is there any standard practice??Thanks.
> 

There is no standard logic for partitioning out a system.  It all
depends on how large your disks are, how many of them you have, and
what you need to do.  In this case, you are running FW-1, and if thats
all you will be doing, then you have a baseline.  Read the FW-1 docs
and see where logs are stored, if you are in doubt.  Read them and 
find out the minumum space needed.  Then, accounting for OS software
and the size of your disks, make some partitions.

There are two things to consider, however.  First is that you don't
_have_ to make multiple partitions.  You can set your entire disk as
1 partition and it will not break anything on the system.  It might 
make backup and other sysadmin type tasks more complicated, but it
is not a big deal.  Secondly, you can (with extra software) increase
the size of a partition later in life if you have found that it is 
too small.  If I have big disks, I always try to leave some extra
space unaccounted for in case it is needed later.


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