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Re: Comments on proposed partitioning scheme



On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:05:50 +0100
Charles Turner <lookatmymanbreasts@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have two 80GB disks, which will hold my "system" files.
> I have two 500GB disks which will be my home drive.
> 
> I plan to mirror both sets of disks using RAID1.
> 
> My mirrored 80GB disks will contain the following, the format of my
> examples is mount_point (size) [options]
> /boot (1 GB) [unencrypted, RAID1]

Only really needs to be about 100MB, 300meg if you need room for loads
of kernels (I have the stock debian one and a custom built one and
my /boot is only 30.9MB)

> /       (5 GB) [encrypted, RAID1]
> /var   (20 GB) [encrypted, RAID1]
> /tmp  (500 MB) [encrypted, RAID1]
> /usr   (rest of space) [encrypted, RAID1]
> swap (4 GB) [encrypted] (I have 4 GB of RAM)
> 
> My mirrored 500GB with contain the following,
> /home (500GB) [encrypted, RAID1]
> 
> Do you think this is a silly/decent scheme? Am I being naive about
> anything? Your comments much appreciated.

If you want such a complex set-up, try using LVM [1].
 
Myself, I would just have 

80gig hdd's in raid 1

/boot 500meg
/ Rest

500gig HDD's

/home

> Thanks a lot for your time,
> 

[1]http://wiki.debian.org/LVM

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Angus Hedger

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