[SGVLUG] Linux Partitioning for Server

[Matt Campbell]

Hi Edgar,  no such thing as 'too noob'.

 

Depending on what your server will be doing you may want the swap partition
on a separate physical drive from your OS and data partitions.

 

You probably don't want your boot partition on a RAID volume for performance
reasons.  I would think that having your swap on a RAID partition would be
doubly deadly.

 

I usually create a RAID1 for my boot partition, then take one of the drives
offline.  That way you can bring it back online to sync after an OS update
and have a 'hot spare' laying around if the server OS gets compromised or
corrupted.

 

Best of luck, this sounds like a fun project!

Matt

 

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From: sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net [mailto:sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net] On Behalf
Of Edgar Garrobo
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 1:05 PM
To: sgvlug at sgvlug.net
Subject: [SGVLUG] Linux Partitioning for Server

 

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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