Re: Partition suggestions.

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 08:23:50AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> 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

That's part of why I put swap in LVM.  Why not put swap in LVM?

> 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 

Disks are much to cheap to not use at least raid1.

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Len Sorensen