[BBLISA] Help with Dell PE2950 and RAID5 setup

[Eddy Harvey]

I meant to say this is my partitioning scheme:
	/dev/sda1	/	12G
	/dev/sda2	swap	2x your ram in size
	/dev/sda3	physical volume, the rest of the drive.

	Create a volume group, called VG
	Create a logical volume, /home
	Create a logical volume, /var

There is no need to separate /boot and / anymore.  It's only separate as a
legacy antique from the days of 486.

It is smart (most of the time) to separate /home and /var from /.  Because
these things have a tendency to grow, and could fill the whole drive.

I feel it is a waste of space to dedicate a whole drive mirror to the OS.
Because the smallest drive you can get is probably 70G, and your OS only
requires 5-7 G maximum.  It is always a good idea to allocate 3-4 times more
space than you think you'll need for the the OS.  I personally allocate 20G
partition for the OS.

Just my personal opinion.




-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Tiernan [mailto:michael.tiernan at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:00 AM
To: Eddy Harvey
Subject: Re: [BBLISA] Help with Dell PE2950 and RAID5 setup

On 3/8/07, Eddy Harvey <bblisa2 at nedharvey.com> wrote:
> Also FWIW, I feel it is best practice to make the / partition not an 
> LVM,
It's nice to see someone else agree with this. :)

Did you mean to say in your email that you make /boot and swap physical
slices and the rest LVMs?  (The difference between / and /boot is
significant.) :)

I've taken to experimenting with making the first two drives mirrored and
the last three (or four) RAID 5 to allow me to keep the OS separated (more)
from the data on the system.

I'm still ruminating on the plusses and minuses.
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