[ale] VM guest partitioning practices

[Beddingfield, Allen]

I do the following:

sda1 /boot (ext3, 1gb)
sda2 swap appropriate size
sda3 / xfs
If it makes sense to do a separate /srv, /opt, etc...  I add a second virtual hard drive...so..
sdb1 /srv, /opt, etc...

I put all data directories under /srv (apache, tomcat, ftp, MySQL, MariaDB, etc...), and anything built from source goes under /opt, instead of /usr/local

Btrfs throws all of this out the Window, though.

If I do LVM, I still do /dev/sda1 as /boot
Then, make the rest of the disk a physical volume, and create logical volumes inside for swap, /, etc...

Allen B.
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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama
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Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 10:43 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: [ale] VM guest partitioning practices

I've been asked to research how others layout their filesystems in virtual machines. I long ago decided it wasn't worth splitting stuff like /var off onto its own partition. I particularly don't think it's necessary in a virtual machine. But I need to get some other opinions before I can be validated in mine.

So, how do you guys partition the filesystems in your virtual machines?

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