On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:13:27PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:15:35PM +0000, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: > > Greetings. > > > > Yes, it's a religous question but i'll try to lmit it. > > This is my df -h [snip] > Well one reason for seperate /var is that /var/log and /var/lib > (databases and such) can grow very quickly and cause such problems. > /home is kept seperate because you don't want normal users to fill the > disk (although the reserved space does help avoid issues if they try). > > My latest install uses: > 25G / (raid 1 on sda1 and sdb1) > 25G /home (raid 1 on sdc1 and sdd1) > LVM PV (raid 5 on sda2, sdb2, sdc2 and sdd2) > Swap and /var (for mythtv storage and mysql and such) in LVM. LVM is > handy since I can add and remove volumes and resize them without any of > the problems caused by partitions. > > / (or at least /boot) had to stay out of raid5/LVM since grub doesn't > support that yet (GRUB2 might some day when it is released). Just to add my mix to the mix I usually set up like 500M /boot 10G / 2G ( or roughly mem size) to swap the rest to LVM with LVM I can expand/reduce and just about anything I want to do This also mean I can stay within the 4 primary partition table entries In LVM I create /home - for users info /home/alex - cause I have more /var/log - because it grows for application /var/cache/squid - because it can grow and I don't want it to affect / Under all this I usually have raid1 > > -- > Len Sorensen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- "More and more of our imports are coming from overseas." - George W. Bush 09/26/2005 On NPR's Morning Edition
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