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Re: Follow-up: Worst night ever...



On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:17:04AM -0600, Michael Kahle wrote:
> Disk: 6x 36MB Ultra SCSI disks

> I also need some advise how to partition the drives.  I figure most of it
> will be one large partition (~80-100GB RAID 5), and a few other partitions
> for things like swap, root, boot, homes, etc.  I am of the school that has
> had only a few partitions in the past.  One for boot, one for root and one
> for swap.  I understand that this is not the best way to configure ones
> system.  Any advise?  Please be detailed.

I would assign an 2Gb partition at the beginning of every drive, and
assign the rest for the big raid. 

Just install the system onto the first 2G partition of the first drive, 
and only later worry about setting up the RAIDs. 

Use the 6x 34G partitions for your "large dataset". I would suggest: 
5 disks in raid configuration and a hot spare. That will give you 136G
of data-space. 

The small partitions you use to mirror your root. Assign one for swap 
(how about the one that is "hot spare" in the raid config?).  Think 
about what to do with the other three. (e.g. a nightly backup of
your root perhaps: A mirror doesn't protect you against "woops, I didn't 
mean to delete THAT".)

		Roger. 

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