On 10/17/2002 1:04 PM, Ira Abramov wrote:
Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 17 Oct:I need a big /var for logs and databases (mysql currently). What if I create small /var(cache|spool) and symlink the logs/databases to /home/var?
Hifragmentation. VAR by definition is very active, lots of small additions
I'm setting up a new server and I wondered about hdd partitioning - I need big /var and also a big /home - I thought about creating one big /home and symlinking the /var to /home/var .
Is there anything that should stop me from doing that? Any performance issues?
to multiple files (logs) and lots of creations and deletes (var/cache
and var/spool). if you use LVM/EVMS you can start with two medium-sized
partitions on logical volumes and then grow either one or the other with
LV extensions, depending on which one of the two needs it more. ext2, 3
and reiser are all growable and shrinkable, reiser can even do it on the
fly on a mounted partition if I remember.
I tried to look into LVM. I can't see any option to use it in the RedHat 7.3 installation:
1. Is it possible to create / /usr and swap in the installation, leave the rest unpartitioned and setup LVM for /var and /home manuelly?
2. RedHat 8.0 has LVM support in the installation, and probably supports my RAID card better (onboard promise 20276). I know using .0 release on production servers is not recommended, but are there any real issues with 8.0 (except Apache2 - but I can downrage it manuelly using the 7.3 RPMS).
Sagi
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