[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: [FW1] Recommended NT Disk Partitions
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I also set up a small (c. 2GB) partition as E: so that I can ghost the machine prior to making major changes. This is much faster than ghosting to a network drive and means the machine is out of commission for less time. I install FW-1 on my D: partition (c. 12GB) so that the log files can live there. All log files are set up to write to the D: drive, so that the system partition won't fill up and you don't run into fragmentation problems. Craig. - -----Original Message----- From: Frank Knobbe [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 15 September 2000 9:53 a.m. To: 'Paul Thresher'; [email protected] Subject: RE: [FW1] Recommended NT Disk Partitions - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Thresher [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 1:23 PM > > I am setting up a new FW-1/VPN-1 4.1 standalone system on > NT version 4.0 with a 9gb disk and 256mb of memory. > I am looking for any recommendations on the number of > partitions to use and their size. Paul, I always install NT on a 2-4 GB System partition and allocate the rest as a Data partition. The System partition C: will contain NT and services (i.e. Exchange, FW-1, whatever runs on the box). All data that is generated (i.e. Exchange databases, log files, etc) and user data (if the servers is F/P) resides on the Data partition D:. No one should be able to write files to the C: partition to prevent the disk space from filling up and NT from crashing. Also for security reasons. > Also is it possible to send the logs to a partition other than the > one the firewall is installed in without writing a script to > move them > from one place to another? I'm not aware of a method to direct the active logs to a different location. However, I usually configure firewalls to run a batch file at midnight (scheduler service) that calls logswitch and moves the exported log to a log directory on the D: drive. That will keep the disk space on C: in check. Hope that helps, Frank -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBOcCob4AS1Tpq5ZYvEQIg4wCg+9uDqO35pdb383OWEKBXmJoztXwAoIkr 9HILf7aTZlkSXz7LMUVS7dQu =mcC/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ================================================================================ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================================================
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