partitioning new installation

[Fraser Campbell]

John Van Ostrand wrote:

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

I especially keep / very small because it is so easy to grow ;-)

Really, if you use a filesystem that supports online resize then even / 
is trivial to grow ... reiserfs and xfs can both be resized without 
unmounting the partition.

Here's my home schema:

   Filesystem               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
   /dev/mapper/vg0-root     512M  272M  241M  53% /
   /dev/md0                 126M   82M   45M  65% /boot
   /dev/mapper/vg0-home      40G   25G   16G  61% /home
   /dev/mapper/vg0-tmp      768M  403M  366M  53% /tmp
   /dev/mapper/vg0-usr      3.0G  2.6G  506M  84% /usr
   /dev/mapper/vg0-var      4.0G  304M  3.8G   8% /var
   /dev/mapper/vg0-backups   30G   28G  2.9G  91% /var/backups

I have done online resize of quite a few servers, even hotplugging 
disks, configuring hardware RAID and adding completely new storage to 
LVM without shutdown.
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