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Re: HDD partition suggestion



on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:15:42PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes (dadecal@s2-selling.com) wrote:
> I have a new server with 4 18 Gb drives. 3 of them will be on an array
> in a RAID 5.
> 
> That would give me :
> 
> Drive 1 : 18 Gb
> Raid 5 : about 36 Gb
> 
> Drive 1 is supposed to hold system and the raid array to hold data.
> 
> The server will have about 40 users with a disk cuota of 100-150 mb
> Ftpserver that may grow considerably.
> A couple of CVS repositories (in /var/ )
> Mail for users
> Oracle, a Lotus Domino server and a Java Development Kit are a few big things I can think of now...
> 
> Can you suggest me how to partition the drives?

My standard recommendations are at 

  http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html

In your case, you may want to look at deviating from the standard
configs shown with an expanded /var, or at reparenting your webserver,
database, and CVS repositories under /home.  I'd assume all of the RAID
partition is presented as /home.  You could probably run with a greatly
expanded /var to fill drive 1 as well.  Even going generous with /usr
and /usr/local (say 3-4 GB each), you're going to have something like 
10-12 GB to play with on your drive 1.

Cheers.

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