DJA said:
> I am about to upgrade the hard drives on one of my desktop systems. I
> need more room.
>
> The system now has FC1 and will be upgraded to FC3. I tend to install
> everything because I like to tinker, and well, it's just less tedious.
> The box now has two SCSI drives: 18 GB and 36 GB. I have a new 73 GB
> drive and am inclined to replace both existing drives with it (less
> noise and power).
>
> I am looking for recommendations on partitions. That is, for a home
> desktop system what partition schemes (i.e. /, /boot, /home, etc.) are
> recommended and why? I am not too concerned with sizes as my current
> usage is a pretty good guide here.
>
> Here is my current configuration:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] dallen]$ df
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda5 7882560 6316848 1165296 85% /
> /dev/sda1 132207 13115 112266 11% /boot
> /dev/sdb1 17726076 12358548 4467088 74% /home
> /dev/sda8 5668740 228192 5152588 5% /opt
> none 775132 0 775132 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda7 988212 17368 920644 2% /tmp
> /dev/sdb2 17551988 14972008 1688376 90% /usr/local
> /dev/sda6 1976492 289784 1586304 16% /var
> seven:/home 230757428 59619540 159416064 28%
> /var/nfsmounts/sevenhome
>
> Swap is ~1.0 GB and on sda. I will consider giving all of sdb to
> /home.
>
> Obviously, /opt, /tmp, and /var are underutilized. /opt will be
> eliminated and the size of both /tmp and /var can probably be cut in
> half. Swap could also shrink as it's rarely used (1.5 GB RAM).
>
> Is there any good reason to give /usr its own partition? I hear talk
> about making it RO but I don't know how practical that is on a Redhat
> GUI system.
>
> What is the benefit vs. penalty of using LVM on a home system,
> especially for the case where the system has only one drive? If so,
> what
> partitions should the LVM FS include or exclude and why?
I would definitely go with LVM. I have switched from Red Hat to SuSE
for reasons of hardware. SuSE had LVM installs long before Red Hat and
I think it's the best way to go. My workstation is set up with / on a
partition and everything else is on LVM called /dev/system. The
advantage to LVM is that if /home is getting to full, and /usr/local
is too big, you can lvreduce /usr/local and lvextend /home to adjust.
With standard partitioning this requires a lot of swapping of data,
until you get it right, and you usually need an extra partition to
swap data to, or you reinstall again. You can also, with LVM add
another drive, and then vgextend and lvextd to add that drive to your
logical volume.
It's really cool, you should give it a try!
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