RE: Partitioning hard drives
I was going to respond to this thread mentioning the LVM, but this looks like an
excellent stragegy I haven't considered. Have you ever used the LVM to sort of
accomplish the same thing by assigning extents? On my last install, I set up
/usr, /var, and /home that way, with 65G left over in a different physical
partition for assignment as needed, but haven't run it long enough yet to get
any experience in the ease or lack thereof of maintenance, growability, etc.
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Allen
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[mailto:debian-user-request@lists.debian.org] On Behalf Of Steve Lamb
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 6:36 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Partitioning hard drives
Bob wrote:
> So I'd like to know if this box was yours, how would you partition the
> disks...? Are there any documents other than the ones referenced by
> the Debian Install Guide on how you should partition a Servers
> disks...?
This is a fairly common question and a search in the list archives should
yield many answers from the past when this discussion has popped up. With
that said...
In recent years my method of patitioning has gotten rather lax but
resiliant. A few years back I got nailed by having too much space in some
partitions and not enough in others so I started to stray away from trying to
predict how much space was needed for given situations.
I tend to put /, /usr and /var on their own partitions of decent size
(180Mb, 2.7Gb, 1.8Gb on my laptop) and then take the remainder and mount it
under it's drive name in /mnt. So for my laptop /dev/hda7, a 15Gb partition,
is mounted under /mnt/hda7.
From there I create directories which are symlinked into the rest of the
system. Anything which might grow excessively will be given it's own
directory somewhere in the /mnt/* system. So, in this case, /home is a
symlink to /mnt/hda7/home. On my server /var/www is symlinked into
/mnt/hda5/www since I host a rather large picture gallery. Often I'll make a
single directory called misc and symlink that into the root as a catch all
directory for anything that needs large space. A throwback to how we did
things in a regional ISP I used to work at a decade ago.
By doing it this way I'm able to move pretty much anything around and can
later expand the system by dropping in another drive or mounting to a remote
filesystem via NFS (netapp, anyone?). Nothing of importance really has a
permanant location. The segregation of /var, / and /usr is mainly for ease of
recovery/upgrading and a nominal amount of protection against out-of-space
situations than anything else.
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