Re: Partition Size Suggestions

[Marco Peereboom <marco@peereboom.us>]

Bah bad advice!

You really want to split it of a little more. Create at least a 256M /tmp and 
a /var. You really want nosuid on those slices on a firewall. I would also 
slice out /usr and /usr/local.

On Monday 30 June 2003 06:56 pm, Chris Palmer wrote:
> Ryan writes:
> > Hi, I'm building a pf firewall using OpenBSD 3.3. The machine specs
> > are: Pentium 166, 128mb ram, and 1.6gb hard drive. This machine will
> > just be used as a firewall that will be up all the time. All 1.6gb
> > will be used for OpenBSD. I'm wondering how I should split the
> > separate filesystems up. Also, where should I place the log files?
> > Thanks.
>
> 1. 128 - 256MB for swap and the rest for /.
>
> 2. 128 - 256MB swap, minimum needed for / and the rest for /var (to hold
> logs).
>
> More than 128MB swap may be overkill for a firewall. Personally I would
> go for (1), for greatest flexibility.
>
> And of course, unless you're actually going to read the logs, that's a
> moot point. Usually places that need to keep logs for legal reasons or
> such rotate them to offline storage (tape, CD, et c.) on a regular
> basis.