[SC.LUG] Partitions!

[Greg Bolshaw]

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damian at damosoft.co.uk wrote:
> Im in the process of getting a webserver sorted out hardware consists
> of: dual PIII 1Ghz, 2x 120Gb IDEs, 1Gb ram.
> It will be running Fedora Core 1 and apache, mysql, probably jabber
> and also handle my emails.
>
> Question to the gurus tonight is, how should I setup those discs?
> I was thinking about mirroring one onto the other for backup
> purposes, but how should I actually partition the 120Gb? /boot, / and
> a swap or something better?

Apache, MySQL, Jabber and any MTA will all be reliant on a sensible 
sized /var partition. It'll also be a good idea to put /var/log onto a 
separate partition for obvious reasons.

Consider this:

swap		-	2gig	(2 x RAM)
/boot		-	50meg	(ext2)
/		-	10gig	(ext3)
/var		-	90gig	(reiser)
/var/log	-	15gig	(ext3)
[spare]		-	3gig	(for future use)

> Is the software mirroring on Linux any good for IDEs?

Not great with that amount of memory. Try doubling it, and it'll be 
fine.

> I also have a PCI IDE RAID controller which I could pop in.

...that sounds a better option.

Regards
Greg

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