Re: Partitioning hard drives...

On Jun 23, 8:34 am, Gordon Henderson <gordon+use...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Here's what I'd do...

1. Start from scratch.

/ 256MB
swap 2 x RAM
/usr 4 GB
/home Rest of disk. This is where you're going to store your music,
etc.

I'd be similar but I'd definitely have a /var/, especially if your /
is only going to be 256MB.

I'd partition both drives with the same number of sectors and use RAID-1
to mirror them.

Note: there's no /boot partition here. Why not? Well, the idea of a
/boot originates (I think) from the days when old PC BIOSes had a limit
to the number of cylinders they could access, so it was important to
make sure the linux kernel was inside that limit, so the idea of a small
/boot partition arose.

I'd be using LVM on that raid so I'd still have a /boot.

My disks would be 50MB partition 1 for /boot
the rest partition 2 for LVM.

Currently each partition would then be a separate RAID1 although with
kpartx and /dev/mapper/loop0p* it ought now be possible to have the
raid over the entire disk - which should mean you don't even have to
recreate the partition table or reinstall grub if/when a disk fails
and you replace it.

I think the latest versions of GRUB might support LVM directly which
would be another possibility.

Tim.
.

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