FYI, we have a standard kickstart file we use for installs, and we do: /boot 100mb / 4gb /usr 8gb /home 4gb /tmp 4gb /var 4gb swap 4gb <unallocated> remaining..
Also, we use LVM without question. Just makes life easier. Much easier. Much. The unallocated is then usually used for application specific filesystems. You should be able to create software RAID1 with Linux and then LVM on top of that, although I'll admit I was having problems with that when I tried it the other day. sda1 100mb -> md0 sdb1 100mb -> md0 md0 -> /boot sda2 4gb swap sdb2 4gb swap sda3 remaining -> md1 sdb3 remaining -> md1 md1 -> lvm . logvol00 -> / . logvol01 -> /usr . I think you can then boot up, swapoff, merge sda2 and sdb2 as md2, and swapon on md2 for swap on RAID1. Haven't tried that yet though. --- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author: "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" Download your free copies: http://www.puryear-it.com/publications.htm Thursday, October 12, 2006, 5:17:49 PM, you wrote: > I don't remember how much ram you said you had, but assuming 2GB > (double the ram as a swap partition), I'd partition as follows: > Assuming the drive is called /dev/sda.... > /dev/sda1 100MB ext2 /boot > /dev/sda2 4GB Linux swap > /dev/sda3 5GB reiser3 /tmp > /dev/sda4 (Extended holder) > /dev/sda5 20GB xfs/jfs /var (I know most > distributions place their server application binaries and data under the > var directory) > /dev/sda6 19GB xfs/jfs /usr > /dev/sda7 20GB xfs/jfs /opt > /dev/sda8 10GB xfs/jfs / > /dev/sda8 1GB xfs/jfs /home > Depending on the needs of your applications, you may find that 5GB as > /tmp doesn't work well. Really all of the above information depends on > your applications. If you have a need for a bunch of user specific, > large files and less of a need for client applications, decrease /opt > and increase /home. > Joe Fruchey wrote: >>Ok, I dusted off my Ubuntu 6.06 LTS DVD (Amazing how much dust >>accumulates in four months...), popped two 80GB drives in the GX240, >>and started the install. >> >>I want to do RAID1 for data integrity, but I have no RAID experience >>whatsoever. I set it up with 2 active drives and 0 spare drives (is >>that right?) >> >>Now how should I partition this thing? On my desktops, I like to do >>one big partition, plus swap, but I know most servers are partitioned >>crazily. What should I do? >> >>Joe >> >>_______________________________________________ >>General mailing list >>General at brlug.net >>http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
