[SC.LUG] Partitions!

[Ewan Leith]

If it's a proper raid controller not a software one, it should be good, 
but more ide raid controllers are software based and worse than the 
standard linux software.

one thing to do with that amount of storage space is to use lvm - i'm 
sure fedora will have it, and it means if you need to grow a filesystem 
it's a 5 minute not 5 hour job.

you need to leave /boot and sometimes / in a normal partition, but then 
put everything else in the lvm at small starting sizes, then when you 
figure out what you need where, it's easy to add more.

Ewan

damian at damosoft.co.uk wrote:

> hey guys and gals
> 
> 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?
> 
> Is the software mirroring on Linux any good for IDEs?  I also have a 
> PCI IDE RAID controller which I could pop in.
>