Re: Installing debian on N2100

[John Winters <john@sinodun.org.uk>]

Andrew Haswell wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Winters" <john@sinodun.org.uk>
> > Andrew Haswell wrote:
[snip]
> > > can you give me some advice as to what partitions to create, can i 
> > > get away with just root and swap or is it worth considering more 
> > > granularity.
> > >
> > > I will install Debian on 1 HDD to start and add the other in after, 
> > > mirror the debian partitions, then create data partitions.
> >
> > How big are your hard discs?
>
> I've got 2x 500GB Seagate Drives in it at the moment, i doubt i will
> ever do anything particularly taxing with it on the linux side, will
> probably use it for a LAMP type install, samba, then usual media
> software.

I'd probably go for some variation on my usual set-up there.  A 10G
partition on each disc, RAIDed with RAID1 for /.  Then perhaps a 1G
partition on each, again RAID1, for swap.  Then put the whole of the
rest of each disc into a single large partition, again RAID1, but use
the resulting device as a physical volume for LVM and allocate LVs from
that as needed.

HTH
John