<p>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 "/"</p>
<p>The breakdown it shows is as follows:</p><p></p><p>LVM Groups</p><p>- VolGroup00 992368</p><p> --LogVol01 swap 16213</p><p> --LogVol00 / ext3 976155</p><p>Hard Drives</p><p>- /dev/hda</p><p> --/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 101</p>
<p> --/dev/hda2 VolGroup00 LVM PV 992368</p><p></p><p> Can anyone suggest a better partitioning method or just point out any caveats that one should know when partitioning a new server?</p><p></p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Edgar</p>