Perfect Partition?

[neorder]

This is recommanded partition table taken from DA website:

/boot 40 meg
swap 2 x memory
/tmp 1 Gig. Highly recommended to mount /tmp with noexec,nosuid in /etc/fstab
/ 6-10 Gig
/var 8-20 gig. Emails, logs and databases stored here
/usr 5-12 gig. Just DA data, source code, frontpage.
/home rest of drive. Roughly 80% for user data.


I have 3 harddisk now.
SDA: 74G Raptor.
SDB: Barrcuda ES 320G Seagate
SDC: Barrcuda 9 160G

My plan:

since raptor run faster and more like SCSI drive, so i run mysql and email on this harddisk.

/dev/SDA1 = /boot = 250M
Swap on SDA = 2G
/dev/SDA2 = /tmp = 1G
/dev/SDA3 = / = 6G
/dev/SDA4 = /var = Rest of Drive SDA
/dev/SDA5 = /usr = 5G

I plan to have users will use much space, so

/dev/SDB1 = /home = 320G ES Seagate.

Last backup drive

/dev/SDC1 = /backup = 160G

I have a few questiones:

1. what are the things under "/ 6-10 Gig" why do i need to give 6 to 10G here?

2. Is 160G backup drive big enough? how much data can i backup?

3. I run swap and sql, email on Raptor HDD, will it improve overall performance?

4. That's the best redundant HDD setup i can think of. what else i can improve? or do you have better suggestion based on my three Harddisks?

Thanks.

 

[nobaloney]

1. what are the things under "/ 6-10 Gig" why do i need to give 6 to 10G here?

You don't. We set up between 1G and 2G depending on how much we may save in /root. Usually 1G is more than sufficient.

2. Is 160G backup drive big enough? how much data can i backup?

While most of us would expect our backups to compress to half the size of what's being backed up, we generally count on only a 1:1 ratio, as so many files stored on the server these days are already compressed multimedia files.

3. I run swap and sql, email on Raptor HDD, will it improve overall performance?

Probably not that noticeably.

4. That's the best redundant HDD setup i can think of. what else i can improve? or do you have better suggestion based on my three Harddisks?

I don't tell people how to partition drives; it often becomes a religious argument. I do recommend you forgo the /boot partition unless you have a real need for it; modern OS distributions don't need it.

Jeff

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