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(I hope this is in the right forum... it seemed "installation"-related.)
Hi, first let me say that while I'd like to think I'm somewhat technically competent, I have absolutely no experience of partitioning on Linux, so any and all insight is greatly appreciated.
I'm hopefully going to be the proud new lessee of a server with two 160GB hard drives soon, and have come up with the following as a rough idea of how to have them partitioned:
The OS will likely be either CentOS 4.x or Debian Sarge, if it makes any practical difference.
The main thing I'm wondering, apart from "Do those values look okay for DA?", is this: will I be likely to encounter problems/incompatibilities/errors by having the swap partition and /tmp on the secondary drive? Is this even a good idea? It seemed so to my simple logic that the OS could read/write to swap/temp and user/system data at the same time... Feel free to enlighten me if I'm way off!
If you can think of a better way to make use of 2 x 160, don't be afraid to (constructively) ridicule my draft.
As a side note, is using Dovecot recommended, and/or should I take a possible future move to it into account when deciding on partitioning? (...How?)
I guess that's it for this post. Thanks in advance.
Hi, first let me say that while I'd like to think I'm somewhat technically competent, I have absolutely no experience of partitioning on Linux, so any and all insight is greatly appreciated.
I'm hopefully going to be the proud new lessee of a server with two 160GB hard drives soon, and have come up with the following as a rough idea of how to have them partitioned:
Code:
Primary drive:
/boot - 100MB
/ - 10GB
/var - 15GB
/usr - 15GB
/home - rest of drive
Secondary drive:
(swap) - 2GB
/tmp - 2GB
/backup - rest of driveThe main thing I'm wondering, apart from "Do those values look okay for DA?", is this: will I be likely to encounter problems/incompatibilities/errors by having the swap partition and /tmp on the secondary drive? Is this even a good idea? It seemed so to my simple logic that the OS could read/write to swap/temp and user/system data at the same time... Feel free to enlighten me if I'm way off!
If you can think of a better way to make use of 2 x 160, don't be afraid to (constructively) ridicule my draft.
As a side note, is using Dovecot recommended, and/or should I take a possible future move to it into account when deciding on partitioning? (...How?)
I guess that's it for this post. Thanks in advance.
