Thanks for the detailed reply, Joe! Well...the box DID boot with that HighPoint card and software RAID1 on the 2 drives. I'm going to redo it all over again, but with your partition recommendations. No plans for a Web server, but you never know. This is really just a box for me to mess with regarding FTP setup and/or act as an emergency spare to replace any in production.
Now I have to go read up on LVM to see if I can add it to the mix. Thanks again! Stuart -----Original Message----- From: Joe Polk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: 38 GB partitioning advice I see a couple of problems already. /boot should be no more than 100MB. Anything more is a waste. / should be way more than 500MB. I know that some will say "I run my entire Linux box on a 486DX66 and 250MB HD!" Well, this is RH8 and given what you're telling me, I would jack that up. I would give it at least a Gig. I use a 4gig on my server but it shares /usr too and not many applications will be loaded. Also, if users are going to be uploading these files, then they will likely reside in /home. If you're having an anonymous FTP server then you can point that where you want, but I would still use /home for all such storage. /usr is application data and I wouldn't use if for ftp storage, but you're certainly free to do so. Hell, you can put it anywhere you want, but that's just my assessment. Here's how I would do it, take this for what you will: /boot = 80MB / = 5G /usr = 3G /home = remaining SWAP = 512MB There are a plethora of opinions I'm sure on whether this is necessary, take that for what you will. If you plan to add Apache and email services, then add a /var partition. Keep in mind Apache by default now uses /var/www for it's root, not /home/http as in the past. You can, however, move it to /home if you wish. The important thing to stress is, increase / and make /boot smaller as indicated. 500MB is too small for / and way too big for /boot. <<JAV>> On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 08:06, Douglas, Stuart wrote: > Thanks for the reply (all of you!). > > I did read a tiny bit about LVM in the RH install/config documentation. It seemed > like very useful technology, but I stayed away from it for the moment given my > embryonic understanding of the Linux environment. > > My setup is strictly for an anonymous (private...by fixed IP list at the FW) FTP > server that will take in HUGE (100-1000 MB) MPEG2 files which then get moved to our > video production servers (the FTP basically serves as a temporary holding bin for > inbound content from our clients). Being stuck on the cheap, I'm using an old > PII/400 PC with 256 MB of RAM and 2 40 GB IDE drives connected to a HighPoint ATA > controller card and setting up RAID1 during the Linux install. I started the > install yesterday, and after feeling my way through the manual DiskDruid part > (something like 5-6 times!) I THINK I have the RAID done correctly (I'll find out > this morning, I left it doing the drive checking part on all the partitions > yesterday evening). I went with 500 MB partitions for swap, / and /boot. I went > with 4 GB /var and /home partitions, and then put all remaining disk space into the > /usr partition (where I'll point the FTP server). I have no idea if the box will > even end up booti! ng! > after I'm done...I guess I'll find out shortly. Since this is something of a > developmental/test box, I'd kinda like to investigate everyone's LVM suggestions, > especially since I'm not even through the initial OS install yet. I may just have > to get out the company checkbook and get a hardware IDE RAID controller instead and > start all over. > > Sorry to ramble a bit hear, but if anyone has any feedback given the above, your > advice or comments are always greatly appreciated. > > Regards, > > Stuart > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Thierry ITTY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 4:13 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: 38 GB partitioning advice > > > I'd set up reasonnable system partitions (depending on what you'll install) > such as > 50/100 MB for /boot > 2/4GB for / > swap (twice ram) > then use LVM for the rest. with LVM you'll be able to increase/decrease > partitions size seamlessly > > > > > A 13:00 24/03/2003 -0500, vous avez écrit : > >All, > > > >I'm setting up a RH8 server (FTP) onto mirrored 40 GB drives (38162 > usable...doing the RAID as part of the OS install) and need some > partitioning suggestions for the installation. What partitions and sizes > should I use (and why for those who feel like being extra > informative...thanks in advance). > > > >Regards and thanks, > > > >Stuart > > > > > > > >-- > >redhat-list mailing list > >unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > - * - * - * - * - * - * - > Bien sûr que je suis perfectionniste ! > Mais ne pourrais-je pas l'être mieux ? > Thierry ITTY > eMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] FRANCE > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
