[SGVLUG] Linux Partitioning for Server

[Edgar Garrobo]

Hey guys.  I hope this isn't too much of a noob question but I'm working on
building a CentOS 5 server and I'm at the partitioning phase.  I've pretty
much always gone with the defualt partition setup that CentOS proposes when
you tell it to use the entire drive but I'm wondering if anyone can suggest
a better(optimal) partitioning setup.  The server will be used to host an
internal Joomla site and will also be "joined" to my windows AD domain with
the hopes of being able to integrate AD authentication with Joomla users.
 The Joomla content will be hosted on this same server which will also host
the Joomla site.  It has a RAID 5 array of SATA drives with 1TB of space.
 By default the partition manager wants to create a SWAP file of 16GB which
is double the RAM the server has.  It also wants to assign a /boot partition
of 101 MB.  The rest of the space it's assigning to the root directory "/"

The breakdown it shows is as follows:

LVM Groups

- VolGroup00   992368

  --LogVol01    swap 16213

  --LogVol00  /  ext3   976155

Hard Drives

- /dev/hda

  --/dev/hda1  /boot  ext3  101

  --/dev/hda2  VolGroup00  LVM PV  992368

  Can anyone suggest a better partitioning method or just point out any
caveats that one should know when partitioning a new server?

Thanks,

Edgar
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