* Brett Delmage <Brett [ dot ] Delmage [ at ] twobikes [ dot ] ottawa [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca> [050806 21:01]: > What is the "best practice" for filesystem partitioning these days? Brett, sounds like you missed the LVM talk on Tuesday. The slides are here: http://www.techwiz.ca/~peters/presentations/lvm/ The advantage of LVM is that you can change your mind later and change partition sizes w/o loss of data (easier for some filesystems, see slides). In general, I would say... / for all your OS, so ~5G /home for user data, depends, 5-10G /var for server data and logs, 5-10G /tmp mount a tmpfs drive swap as much as you need for swap + /tmp ... put /home and /var on LVM so you can change your mind later about the size. /tmp on tmpfs is a cool hack that a friend told me to try. I have not actually tested it yet, so I don't have first hand experience. Anyway, /tmp will eat up RAM as long as it's used actively. Once files are stale it will get swaped out. This of course means that files don't persist over reboots. You mentioned software RAID... don't use RAID5. Spend the $50 to get another 40G drive and do RAID1 (mirror). -Bart -- WebSig: http://www.jukie.net/~bart/sig/
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