RE: [FW1] Partition for Solaris

[Chris F <freaknetboy@FW1-NOSPAMyahoo.com>]

Another think to think about is restoring and/or
growing filesystems.

Let's say you wish to increase your /opt partition
(like I did). I have that on a seperate partition. I
increased it, and ufsdumped just that /opt backup from
tape.

Quick and easy!

Just a though! -- Chris

--- Doug Schmidt <Doug@cometsystems.com> wrote:
> 
> With the second option. What happens when you get
> hit with say a DoS Attack,
> and the FW is logging, logging away. Until it just
> crashes, because *all*
> available
> disk space is used.
> 
> In my opinion, this is just trouble waiting to
> happen. You would be better
> off
> keeping separate partitions.
> 
> ~Doug
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Edwards
> [mailto:jedwards@sos.state.tx.us]
> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 9:26 AM
> To: 'Brian Tan Wee Beng';
> fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com
> Subject: RE: [FW1] Partition for Solaris 
> 
> 
> 
> This is almost a religious debate.  Some people say
> you should partition all
> the separate OS file systems (/ /opt /var /usr
> /export/home swap) into their
> own partitions and some say just make it one big
> chunk with the only thing
> separate being swap.  I used to be one of the former
> persuasion until I
> tried the latter and I am convinced that is the way
> to go, especially on
> something like a firewall where you don't have users
> logging in to the
> operating system.  With the days of having to
> shoehorn a 1 GB operating
> system into a 1 GB disk behind us, I take the normal
> 18 GB disk drive and
> use 4 GB for the root partition (full install of
> Solaris 8 needs about 2.3
> GB) , double my memory (or use a minimum of 2 GB)
> for the swap partition and
> make the rest for logs.  You can do symbolic link to
> anywhere you like for
> the log directory.  I would also set up a periodic
> log switch, move your old
> logs somewhere else and compress them.  
> 
> This works very well for me.
> 
> Jim Edwards
> Systems Manager
> Texas Secretary of State
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Tan Wee Beng [mailto:tanwbb@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 6:45 AM
> To: fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com
> Subject: [FW1] Partition for Solaris 
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Cheers
> 
>
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