[brlug-general] Partitioning suggestions for the LAMP server?

[Andrew Baudouin]

I don't remember how much ram you said you had,  but assuming 2GB 
(double the ram as a swap partition), I'd partition as follows:

Assuming the drive is called /dev/sda....

/dev/sda1      100MB           ext2         /boot
/dev/sda2      4GB              Linux swap
/dev/sda3      5GB             reiser3    /tmp                    
/dev/sda4   (Extended holder)
/dev/sda5      20GB        xfs/jfs         /var  (I know most 
distributions place their server application binaries and data under the 
var directory)
/dev/sda6      19GB        xfs/jfs         /usr
/dev/sda7      20GB         xfs/jfs         /opt
/dev/sda8      10GB         xfs/jfs         /
/dev/sda8      1GB        xfs/jfs          /home


Depending on the needs of your applications, you may find that 5GB as 
/tmp doesn't work well.  Really all of the above information depends on 
your applications.  If you have a need for a bunch of user specific, 
large files and less of a need for client applications, decrease /opt 
and increase /home.


Joe Fruchey wrote:

>Ok, I dusted off my Ubuntu 6.06 LTS DVD (Amazing how much dust
>accumulates in four months...), popped two 80GB drives in the GX240,
>and started the install.
>
>I want to do RAID1 for data integrity, but I have no RAID experience
>whatsoever. I set it up with 2 active drives and 0 spare drives (is
>that right?)
>
>Now how should I partition this thing? On my desktops, I like to do
>one big partition, plus swap, but I know most servers are partitioned
>crazily. What should I do?
>
>Joe
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