Re: Partition scheme for Debian installation

[Svein Ove Aas <svein.ove@aas.no>]

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Just thought I'd add my two cents.
This is for a system with two 80GB drives and two 120GB drives; all are on 
separate channels, for performance reasons.
I have 1.5GB of RAM, so I don't see the need for swap - this way, if a process 
leaks out of control, it won't sink my entire system. (Or, at least, not 
trash for an hour before the OOM killer gets it.)
If I need it for any specific reason I use a swapfile. (Usually WIN386.SWP, 
which makes it complain at next startup. ;)

So, anyway:

I have a 0.5GB /boot partition - overkill, really.
(With LVM you have to have one outside it)
80GB of each drive is allocated to LVM.

*Inside* LVM, I have the following partitions:
5GB is allocated to critical and/or personal data, using RAID5 and the md 
driver.
30GB is allocated to / - I tend to install a lot of stuff.
2GB is allocated to /var.
2GB is allocated to /var/tmp, and mount --bound to /tmp, which is somewhat 
safer than symlinks.
100GB is allocated to /home, as I enjoy a good movie or two.
5GB is allocated to /usr/local; I expect to install multiple distributions for 
testing purposes, but that's no reason to duplicate *that* directory.

Perversely, 20GB is allocated to /home/svein/fserve/incoming, because there 
may be a lot of downloads going on at once, and most programs don't allocate 
the entire file in advance - I dislike fragmentation. In practice it's a 
persistent /tmp.
Besides, even if they did, Linux wouldn't let them unless they actually 
*wrote* to those parts of the file. At least not without a special 
parameter/call - is there such a thing?

This leaves a little under 154GB unallocated, so I definitely have room to 
grow - and, of course, with LVM I *can* grow, usually without rebooting or 
even remounting.

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