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Martin LORANG
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 10:44 am    Post subject: Disk partitionning Reply with quote

Hello

I'm planning to reinstall and repartition my dual opteron.
I'm using KDE, Koffice, OpenOffice, Gimp...
What is, in your mind, the best way to partition 3 36Gigs disks.

200 mb on the first for /boot the rest for /home
second disk for /root ?
third for /var ?

Any suggestion ?

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 11:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

1st /boot and /
2nd /home
3rd /usr

would be my advice
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 8:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ehhh...

Unless you are breaking out all of the rest of the filesystems, like we used to do when disks were small, it will depend on what you use the box for more that anything. If you are going to do high bandwidth I/O for doing video editing or something like that, that should be on its own disks or raid array. With 3 36gig disks, for normal type usage, I'd put /boot, and / on the first disk, but mount /tmp, /var, /opt, /usr/portage from partitions on the second disk (lots of high volume I/O and/or lots of big files) The third disk, I'd make /home. That being said, if you are into redundancy or massive uptime,you could also do something like raid 10 with a hotspare, or raid 5. Then put everything in like a normal Gentoo install. It really depends what your ultimate goal for the machine is.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 9:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another option would be raid 0 (striped) will give better speed, and you would have about 108 gig.

100M boot, 1Gig swap, the rest root.

Inspite of what anyone says, thats how I do it. :D


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