I am installing K12LTSP at my school.
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?
Do not be tempted to slap everything into one partition; you will probably regret the decision in the future, especially at upgrade time. There are two methods to upgrade. Method one - use yum or up2date (or similar); this requires discipline and you must manage the upgrades regularly, as they are incremental. This is all fine and dandy but personally I never seem to have the time to do these managed upgrades. Which leads to method two - do a complete reinstall with either a later version of the same distro, or a completely different distro. Few people do this, but it works well for me and if everything is on one partition, you cannot do this, as all your data will be overwritten.
I have /boot, /, /home, /usr/local, /opt and /tmp as separate partitions, on both by home box and the work boxes. This is the minimum setup the I used to run when I worked on IBM RS/6000's (big unix boxes) and what was good enough in the "real" work (eg finance, insurance, retail, manufacturing, MOD, etc) is certainly more than adequate for the sheltered school environment.
Some people expand this to include /var and /usr. In my setup, all
of the "mandatory" software lives in the / partition, "optional"
software such as StarOffice goes into /opt (yes I know that OO
lives in /usr/bin but ideally all apps should go into /opt), locally
developed stuff goes into /usr/local and the users home dirs are
(of course) in /home. As an added bonus, if you need to increase
the space of a partition, you simply slap another disk in and either
migrate the entire filesystem to the new disk or if you use LVM, you can add the new disk to the existing filesystem.
Regards Martin Woolley ICT Support Handsworth Grammar School Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna
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