On 8/29/05, W.Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My scheme is: > 100 M /boot on ext3 (I was going to store some other info there, but > its mostly "space" att) > > 2G swap > > 4G reiserfs with a complete, basic gentoo rescue install - if all goes > pear shaped, I have a backup including a functioning /boot on this > partition. Particularly useful with things like a gateway: you can come > up on the rescue partition and provide near normal service/network > access while fixing the main problem in a chroot etc. Maintenance of > this partition is done offline in a chroot so other than an occasional > test, its rarely run in its own right. > > 4G / on reiserfs with /etc, /root etc > > remainder (200G is below, and on my main desktop system similarly > arranged I have 200G + an extra 60G drive) is all LVM > containing /home, /var, /tmp and /usr. > > This system is mainly a LAMP server/gateway for a home network. it also > contains mostly file storage and backups in /home > > moriah ~ # df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda5 3.8G 2.2G 1.6G 59% / > udev 252M 2.6M 249M 2% /dev > cachedir 3.8G 2.2G 1.6G 59% /lib/splash/cache > /dev/vg1/usr 32G 5.9G 27G 19% /usr > /dev/vg1/var 48G 2.3G 46G 5% /var > /dev/vg1/tmp 16G 33M 16G 1% /tmp > /dev/vg1/opt 4.0G 169M 3.9G 5% /opt > /dev/vg1/home 77G 26G 52G 34% /home > none 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hda1 92M 18M 69M 21% /boot > /dev/hda3 3.8G 1.7G 2.1G 46% /mnt/hda3 > moriah ~ # > > There are probably performance issues, but they are not noticeable in > practise. hdparm actually shows a slight speed advantage for the LVM > partitions, but there are also error messages so I dont really trust it! > > BillK >
Thanks Bill, That's very helpful. To test my understanding /dev/hda1 - boot - 100M /dev/hda2 - swap - 2G /dev/hda3 - NOT CLEAR - the backup/rescue install? /dev/hda4 - LVM - 200G /dev/hda5 - root - 4G So you've placed pretty much the bulk of the machine in LVM and it's working well for you. That's cool. Could you possibly share a bit from your grub.conf file as well as your fstab file? I think with that info I'd be pretty confident when I do the build tomorrow morning. Thanks, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
