Partitions
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Personally i'd say go with the default OS partition layout, you can't go wrong with that much free space.
FreeBSD allows you to manually add users on different partitions (so probably Linux too) but I don't think DA supports this as yet. You could always move and then symlink a user's home DIR to a different partition once it has been created.
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Of course (on Linux, anyway) the default partition scheme only uses one drive.
Presuming Linux, here's what I'd do on that system (without RAID):
On the first drive:
Then the balance as a single LVM partition.
On the second drive:
Then the balance on a single LVM container.
And on the third drive a single LVM container.
Then with the LVM containers I'd create a single logical partition home in this order:
3rd drive's LVM + 3rd drive's LVM + 1st drive's LVM
Then on that logical partition I'd create the /home directory using all the remaining space.
With RAID it gets a bit more complex; you can create one RAID4 array with all three drives, then on that create a single LVM, and on that LVM create the partitions sized as above, using the same sizes, with /home defined last to take all the remaining space.
Jeff
Presuming Linux, here's what I'd do on that system (without RAID):
On the first drive:
Code:
/ 1 G
/usr 15 GOn the second drive:
Code:
/var 15 G
/tmp 2 G
<swap> 1GAnd on the third drive a single LVM container.
Then with the LVM containers I'd create a single logical partition home in this order:
3rd drive's LVM + 3rd drive's LVM + 1st drive's LVM
Then on that logical partition I'd create the /home directory using all the remaining space.
With RAID it gets a bit more complex; you can create one RAID4 array with all three drives, then on that create a single LVM, and on that LVM create the partitions sized as above, using the same sizes, with /home defined last to take all the remaining space.
Jeff