SYS Volume Size Recommendation

It used to be that when you created volumes for large hard drives on your NetWare servers, you'd use only a couple of hundred megabytes for the SYS: volume and then dedicate the rest to a data volume. As applications and utilities have grown, a small SYS: volume can cause you lots of headaches. If the SYS: volume fills up, your server will crash. As more and more products rely on NDS, they'll require more space on your SYS: volume as well. Novell suggests that you make a DOS partition big enough to store a coredump and some useful utilities, approximately 512MB. Make the rest of the space the SYS: volume. Add secondary hard drives for data, and mirror the SYS: volume for better protection.  If you are using the server for only file storage then I would make sure the SYS volume is at 500MB, if you are going to run utilities, and system management software then make the SYS volume 1 GB at least.

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