I meant to say this is my partitioning scheme:
/dev/sda1 / 12G
/dev/sda2 swap 2x your ram in size
/dev/sda3 physical volume, the rest of the drive.
Create a volume group, called VG
Create a logical volume, /home
Create a logical volume, /var
There is no need to separate /boot and / anymore. It's only separate as a
legacy antique from the days of 486.
It is smart (most of the time) to separate /home and /var from /. Because
these things have a tendency to grow, and could fill the whole drive.
I feel it is a waste of space to dedicate a whole drive mirror to the OS.
Because the smallest drive you can get is probably 70G, and your OS only
requires 5-7 G maximum. It is always a good idea to allocate 3-4 times more
space than you think you'll need for the the OS. I personally allocate 20G
partition for the OS.
Just my personal opinion.
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Tiernan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:00 AM
To: Eddy Harvey
Subject: Re: [BBLISA] Help with Dell PE2950 and RAID5 setup
On 3/8/07, Eddy Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also FWIW, I feel it is best practice to make the / partition not an
> LVM,
It's nice to see someone else agree with this. :)
Did you mean to say in your email that you make /boot and swap physical
slices and the rest LVMs? (The difference between / and /boot is
significant.) :)
I've taken to experimenting with making the first two drives mirrored and
the last three (or four) RAID 5 to allow me to keep the OS separated (more)
from the data on the system.
I'm still ruminating on the plusses and minuses.
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