Request DA installation guidelines (website)

[Digitalsoul]

Prior to installing DirectAdmin I consulted the Install page at the official DirectAdmin website. My only problem during a clean (base) installation on Debian was the partition scheme.

On DA website:

We suggest a simple partition structure of:

/boot 40 meg
swap 2 x memory
/ rest of drive

For a less simple partition structure:

/boot 40 meg
swap 2 x memory
/tmp 1 Gig. Highly recommended to mount /tmp with noexec,nosuid in /etc/fstab
/ 6-10 Gig
/var 8-20 gig. Emails, logs and databases stored here
/usr 5-12 gig. Just DA data, source code, frontpage.
/home rest of drive. Roughly 80% for user data. Mount with nosuid in /etc/fstab if possible.

Would be nice if the install website mentioned if the partitions must be primary/logical and the format ext2/ext3. Perhaps this was not mentioned because of the different linux flavors?

 

[nobaloney]

Would be nice if the install website mentioned if the partitions must be primary/logical and the format ext2/ext3. Perhaps this was not mentioned because of the different linux flavors?

I don't know what you mean by primary/logical. DirectAdmin doesn't require primary partitions. As far as I understand partitions there are only two kinds of partitions: primary and logical. DirectAdmin should work fine with any format supported by the OS distribution you're using.

Before the author of ReiserFS killed his wife we used to use ReiserFS for our MailDir directories as it's much more efficient with small files.

Jeff