[ale] file server partitioning recommendations....

[Jeff Hubbs]

Unfortunately, you left out info such as how many drives, how big each
one is, etc. nor did you say if reliability is more important than speed
or if you have any other disk controllers available other than the
3ware.

I'm going to assume that you've got at least one straight IDE controller
besides the 3ware - probably two.  I might want to put a CF IDE drive
right on that first controller to use solely as /boot.  

If you use a swap partition at all, you've got a bit of a problem.  The
industry has let us down by not giving us hyper-fast disk drives in the
1-4GB range.  If your machine had a second straight IDE controller, I
might hang a small fast drive off of it, make a 2GB swap partition, and
use the rest of the disk as a scratch area if not for the single point
of failure that brings.  

There are several things you could do, but one might be to put a drive
on the first regular IDE controller as a slave to the CF IDE's master
and put another drive on the second regular IDE controller.  Then, you
could mirror partitions on those two drives and make that your swap
volume.  

 

On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 13:05, Keith Morris wrote:
> I just got my new server in today and am getting ready to install and 
> will primarily using this as a samba file/cvs/testing internal web server.
> 
> The machine has a 3ware raid controller with hardware raid 5 with a hot 
> spare already configured as one big drive (480GB).
> 
> I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on partition 
> structure.  There won't be any user home directories, so I don't think I 
> need a separate /home filesystem.  Here are my initial thoughts:
> 
> /boot 100MB
> swap 2GB (it has 1GB RAM)
> /  4-8GB ???
> /tmp 1GB
> /shares *all the rest*
> 
> 
> do I need a separate /usr, /var, /var/log, /var/spool....etc...etc....etc?
> 
> Anyway, any insight you may have would be most appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Keith Morris
> IQ Television Group
> http://www.iqtv.com
> 
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