partitioning new installation

[Tim Writer]

John Van Ostrand <john-Da48MpWaEp0CzWx7n4ubxQ at public.gmane.org> writes:

> On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 16:07 -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:
> > Can anyone suggest a partitioning scheme for a new FC4 installation? 
> > Every time I make a bunch of partitions I end up with too much free 
> > space on some and not enough on others (notably /usr and /home).
> > 
> > Master is 20 GB and slave is 6 GB. I think I'll partition the slave as 
> > /backupdrive -- that's worked well for me on another machine - .jpg's, 
> > .ogg's et al.
> > 
> > How about
> > swap 500 MB (I have 256 MB RAM)
> > /boot 256 MB
> > / the remainder
> > ?
> 
> For me it's LVM all the way. That way I can put only what I need on
> partitions and grow them later if need-be.

Agree 100%. I would never install a general purpose Linux box (i.e. desktop
or laptop) without LVN anymore.

> Even with LVM I tend to be generous with / because it's much harder to
> grow.

Not really, just boot from any recent KNOPPIX which has mdadm (if needed) and
all the LVM tools.

> For workstations I go with three logical volumes (partitions):
> 
>     /boot    100M (or less regardless of what Anaconda warns)
>     swap    1024M (if you get 1G into swap you're really in trouble)
>     /            remainder
> 
> For servers I want to compartmentalize in case one filesystem fills up.
> I'm also an older UNIX quy who wants dynamic file systems (/tmp, /var,
> etc) on separate file systems.

I tend to do this with workstations too.

> The file system sizes depend on what you will be installing. For a 20GB
> you'll be fighting space and I would recommend as a minimum:
> 
> /boot 64M (or less, how many kernels do you want?)
> swap 1024M
> /  1024M (I like space here to make upgrades easy, I'm also a
> MailScanner fan and this is where rules_du_jour puts rules)
> /usr 4096M (really depends on what you install)
> /var 1024M (more for mail servers, etc)
> /home (depends on user needs)
> /opt (if you are installing software that wants to go there.

Above is good advice. I'd probably start with 4GB for /home and not bother
with /opt until needed.

> Then as you know how the space is being used grow the file systems into
> the 20GB,
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