Setting up Drive for new Blade 100

[Kegnut]

Hello...again. I am setting up a Blade 100 (15Gb HD, 128 Mb RAM, 500Mhz Proc.) and am a little confused with how to set up the drive partitions. This will be used as a workstation with everything pretty much mounted from a central server. Only thing I will want I think is /, /usr, and /tmp. What I don't know is the exact process to do so. Any help will be appreciated. THanks!

J

 

[jaSun]

If you are performing an initial install, Solaris 8 (or any other version) should pretty much walk you through the drive partitioning. The install program is actually pretty nice (opposed to most of Sun's GUI's ;-) )

When you say that you will be mounting most of the disk space from a central server, I am thinking that you are tallking about NFS mounting stuff like /export and /home. You may consider making a good sized partition called /opt for third party software and a /var for the OS to dump logs. (/var/adm can tend to get a little large at times!)
Maybe something like this:

/ 150MB
/tmp(swap) 128M
/usr 1.0GB
/var 2.0GB
/opt 10.0GB
/<whatever> <the remaining space...approx. 1.7GB)

HTH
Jason