I have 2x 45 GB matched hard drives and I am planning on repartitionning them to have a high performance workstation/server system. I have also 512MB of RAM and will be upgrading to 1GB soon.
So here is my plan so far:
In order per disk:
DISK 1:
/boot 36MB ext3
SWAP 128MB
/usr 5GB RAID0 XFS 1st
/usr/local 5GB RAID0 XFS 1st
SWAP 128MB
/ 5GB XFS
SWAP 128MB
/var 5GB RAID0 XFS 1st
SWAP 128MB
/opt 5GB RAID0 XFS 1st
/home 11GB RAID0 XFS 1st
DISK 2:
SWAP 128MB
/usr 5GB RAID0 XFS 2nd
/usr/local 5GB RAID0 XFS 2nd
SWAP 128MB
/var 5GB RAID0 XFS 2nd
SWAP 128MB
/tmp 5GB XFS
SWAP 128MB
/opt 5GB RAID0 XFS 2st
/home 11GB RAID0 XFS 2st
Summary:
/boot -> 36MB
/ -> 5GB
/usr -> 10GB RAID0
/usr/local ->10GB RAID0
swap -> 2GB
/var -> 10GB RAID0
/tmp -> 5GB
/opt -> 10GB RAID0
/home -> 22GB RAID0
X -> 16GB
I know they don't sum up exactly, but it's just to give you an idea (the other 16GB I might allocate them to /home or to 2 w2k partitions)
As you can see, everything is a RAID with the exception of / and /tmp.
the server use of it will be SSH, FTP, HTTP, SMB, etc.
So I need lost of room for storing files, and also lots of room for applications, since it will be mainly a high-performance workstation.
My questions are the following:
1.- are the proportions right? What should I change?
2.- Can the root (/) partition be a RAID too, or is is not recommended (in case of a problem, for example, would I prefer having a normal partition rather than a RAID?)
3.- Should I make /tmp RAID 0 too? I left it like that to keep some sort of symmetry on both drives, but maybe it's not needed, and I could rearrange and make it a RAID0 too?
Ok, thank you very much in advance for your advice.
gikoreno
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