New ZM installation -> partitioning schema... any suggest

Truelies_77 · Post by **Truelies_77** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 4:19 pm

Hallo Everybody,

I want to test a Zoneminder installation on a P4 2.4Ghz, 768MB of RAM, 40GB HD and a BT484 based card with 4 input (first with 1 camera, but the idea is to connect 4 cameras).

I want to use the entire HD only for Linux + Zoneminder... but I don't know how to partition it according with the amount of space required to save the ZM events... in my (little

) experience I have understand that is always better to create a separate partition for /tmp and /var but how many space I need to destinate them?

Any help is appreciated, so thanks a lot in advance!
Ciao!
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Truelies_77 · Post by **Truelies_77** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 3:00 pm

Ops, I forgot to say that if the test configuration will works (as I hope

) I will add a 2nd HD of 200GB for the storage of the events...

Any suggest about the main HD of 40GB its always appreciated!

Have a nice week-end!
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davide · Post by **davide** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 4:02 pm

see http://www.elltel.net/melins/livecd/installer_page/

- 2 GB for /root
- a little swap partition (I use 512 MB )
- all the rest to /var

I don't have a clue on how to use 2 hd efficently.. maybe a RAID 0 ?

ciao.

Truelies_77 · Post by **Truelies_77** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 10:10 pm

Ciao Davide,

thanks a lot for the reply and the really useful link!!! But is only a little strange the fact that /tmp its not on a separate partition... in the past if I remember correctly... ZoneMinder usually puts some files in /tmp...

And now?

Grazie ancora

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