Re: 120GB Hard Disk, Debian and Partition Suggestions
At 2002-07-19T10:28:06Z, nick lidakis <nick.lidakis@verizon.net> writes:
> I just purchased a 120GB Hard Disk to use with debian. Most of the HOWTO's
> I have read at Linux Documentation Project deal with small (~2GB) disks.
> What are the general recommendations for large hard disk and Debian
> workstations?
If you're really adventurous, you could install 'lvm2' and make that 120GB
monster one giant 'volume group' from which to partition 'logical volumes'
for your filesystems. Only slice up as much as you think you'll need for
right now, say, 256M for /, 2GB for /var and 4GB for /usr. If you need more
room later, you can use lvm's utilities to extend the appropriate logical
volume.
For example, here's my current layout:
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdc1 241116 113256 115412 50% /
/dev/volgroup1/tmp_stripe32k
524268 32848 491420 7% /tmp
/dev/volgroup1/usr_stripe32k
6291260 2472224 3819036 40% /usr
/dev/volgroup1/var_stripe32k
2097084 245552 1851532 12% /var
Whenever one of those filesystems starts to get full, I have plenty of extra
storage to tack on:
root@pooh:~# vgdisplay
--- Volume group ---
VG Name volgroup1
System ID pooh.int1027089672
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 255
Cur LV 3
Max PV 255
Cur PV 2
VG Size 29.77 GB
PE Size 4.00 MB
Total PE 7622
Alloc PE / Size 2176 / 8.50 GB
Free PE / Size 5446 / 21.27 GB
VG UUID ETm08h-PL8R-K3vc-cG83-DT8R-OPNL-YFjpgX
In my case, I'm using two smaller drives (20GB and 30GB) and setting up the
logical volumes as RAID0 (striped) which was a trivial command-line flag
more work than setting them up as standard single-drive volumes.
I did set this up earlier today for the first time and it worked correctly
on the first try. I think I'm in love. :)
--
Kirk Strauser
The Strauser Group - http://www.strausergroup.com/
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