Krsnendu dasa wrote:
I am installing K12LTSP at my school.
We will be running up 20 clients at first with up to 50 students logging
in.
They will mostly be using them for word processing, impress
presentations and some web browsing.
It will also function as the file server for windows workstations (office an teachers computers) on the network. About 5 machines currently.
My server will run with 2 X 120 GB SATA RAID 1. Any recommendations how to partition the hard drive? e.g. separate partition for homes to aid data backup?
Please guide me.
If you set everything as one partition, then you would have to use quotas to prevent someone from writing too much information on your / partition filling it up. They can still do this, even if you create / and /home partitions, by filling up /tmp (which most people leave as part of the / partition).
One benefit for different partitions is if you had different hard drive configurations (RAID-1 for /, RAID-5 or different RAID-1 for /home). Having different partitions on the same drive does not help the complete system from hard drive failure (that's what RAID is for).
I personally would keep everything as one partition and enforce quotas for hard drive space.
Note: Partitioning is at the low-level of the hardware controller (SCSI or IDE). This is not the same as simply creating various directories to store information (i.e., /windows for the Windows computers, /home for the LTSP users home directories).
Ken Cobler
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