Re: [sheflug] HD partitioning question

["John Cooper" <john [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi all,
>

Hi Steve,


>
> HDD1:
>
> sda1 : 32 Mb : /boot (Simply enough for a few custom kernels and the grub
> stuff)
> sda2 : 4096 Mb : swap (The machine has 2 Gb of memory)
> sda3 : remaining space on sda for /
>
> HDD2:
>
> sdb1 : all available space in a single partition, mounted as /usr
>

Might I suggest that you keep /usr as part of / and move /var onto the
second disk. /usr should not change that much but /var is more likley to
fill.  Perhaps a seperate partition for /tmp can be nice. I don't think
that you are likley to be filling things up in a hurry. I tend to keep
things small and grow then when required. 2-3Gb for /, 2-3Gb for /var,
500Mb for /tmp. Then just grow them if you need more space. It allows me
to add partitions and move things about if I need to. I use LVM to make it
all pretty painless.

But if you have 2x32Gb for the basic system then I would look at running
Raid on the two disks. It saves a lot of time and pain, normally at just
the wrong moment, in the long run! It will also give you a little bit of a
speed boost if you run it as a straight mirror for some tasks.

> HDD3:
>
> sdc1 : all available space in a single partition, mounted as /virtual (For
> virtual machines created using VMware)
>

You may want to look into lvm and snapshots for this. Create a master
partition with an installed copy of the OS, snapshot it and boot it up to
test various things. Might save a bit of time and space. Although again
300Gb should give you room to play! Perhaps move the build directories
from gento onto this disk depending on how fast/old your SCSI disks are.


> HDD4:
>
> sdd1 : all available space in a single partition, mounted as /documents
> (For
> the large number of user documents that will eventually be present).
>

If you really need the space then that's cool but again I am a big fan of
some RAID! If you could afford it, another disk and RAID 5 would give you
the same space with a lot more protection. But I suppose if you have good
backups and time to restore then it's not so much of a problem.



john

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