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divinelighting

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Building a small server to host about a dozen web sites. All small, except for 3 e-commerce sites, each with about 10k products. In my old system, a DA backup of everything is 1GB. I have 2 64gb ssd, 8GB ram.

I am considering the following:

CentOS software raid.
17G root
10G swap
325M /
12G var
25G home

What would you suggest?

Also, on previous installation, fdisk -l command returns
doesn't contain a valid partition table
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for each disk. Is that something to be concerned about?

Thank you.
 
This is m setup with 1TB disk (4x320GB RAID5)
Code: 
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5             814G   41G  732G   6% /
/dev/sda6             9.7G  151M  9.1G   2% /tmp
/dev/sda3              15G  2.6G   12G  19% /usr
/dev/sda2              20G  7.2G   12G  40% /var
/dev/sda1              99M   31M   64M  33% /boot
tmpfs                 2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm

No reason to have root in a separate partition i suppose.
Also /usr is important and you didnt placed considering 325MB for / will for sure be fulled fast.

Regards
 
Yes i have swap (8GB) but df command doesnt show that cuase is not a partition, in fact is not /swap but just swap :)

I think you should do this:

Code: 
double of ram till 8gb swap
100M /boot
5gb /tmp
15gb /usr
15gb /var 
all remaining /

Regards
 
So I stumbled across this from Red Hat regarding usr:

Do not place /usr on a separate file system
If /usr is on a separate file system from /, the boot process becomes much more complex because /usr contains boot-critical components. In some situations (like installations on iSCSI drives), the boot process might not work at all.
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Is this something new to consider, or does DA make things different?
 
Mmmmh never haerd this, on CentOS i never had issue.. cant confirm for rhel, maybe someone else can confirm this or give other suggestions.

If you cant wait, just dont divide / and /usr and give the space just to / not counting /usr in your list.

Regards
 
I've always put /usr on it's own partition as well.

@divinelighting:

Can you point us to that snippet you quoted from Red Hat?

Jeff
 
Makes sense if you require certain drivers which would be installed in /usr (traditionally /usr is for content specific to the machine it's on). Probably most of us don't have that issue. Thanks.

Jeff
 
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