Re: Partitioning hard drives
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 08:06, Bob wrote:
> Hello list, I've read the section in the install manual about
> recommended partitioning schemes, but thought I would also see what the
> collective wisdom has to say on the matter.
Well, if you are going to have all these filesystems on the same set of drive
spindles, there really isn't any use to carving up /usr and everything else
at all.
Separating filesystems mainly gives the advantage of using different mount
options for each filesystem; such as mounting /var "noexec" and /usr "read
only".
putting /var on a separate filesystem is almost always a good idea, since it
is so active; but on a different set of drives is the best idea.
putting /usr on a part by itself allows read only mounting if that gets you
off. Of course installing software requires an extra step.
In debian most all of the server packages will have most of their data in /var
(apache, mysql, postgresql, and so forth).
If it's a file server then /srv (or /export) separate would be a good idea as
well.
Really it depends on the machines purpose and what's running on it. If
your /home is nfs mounted, of course you have no use for a separate /home, do
you?
RAID 10 is a huge money waster as well, only in the most extreme situations
would I use it. RAID 5 is fine for four drives.
If real time redundancy is not that important, you may consider a non-raid
setup.
It depends on what you are running and what you intend to do with it.
Partitioning schemes don't exist in a vacuum; what makes sense for one
machine may be utterly stupid for another.
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