Partitioning on RHEL

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:18:55AM -0400, Asaf Maruf wrote:
> I have a requirement to setup a Dell server with RHEL 5 and Oracle. The
> server has six hard disks configured as RAID 1.
> 
> The server has 8GB of physical RAM. The disk size of each RAID 1 is 139GB
> 
> I am recommending the following partition sizes and swap size.
> 
> /                              10GB

Pretty small if /usr is part of it.

> /boot                        100-500MB
> /var                           2GB

Some databases store their data in /var.

> /opt                           2GB
> swap                         10GB

And the rest goes where?  Are you combining the raid1s in any way (LVM
for example)?

> I have calculated swap size using the following formula:
> 
> Upto 2GB RAM ----> double the swap size  ---> 4GB
> Add the remaining 6GB for a total swap size of 10GB
> 
> 
> Just need confirmation if this is an adequate partitioning scheme for an
> Oracle database server running on Linux.

Probably depends entirely on how much data you have.

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