Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-02 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Thank you to everyone who responded and contributed to this topic. I appreciate it greatly! On 9/2/2011 11:27 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 09/01/2011 07:58 PM, Tom H wrote: >> Poettering says in >> his blog that you can have "/usr" on a separate partition if you mount >> it in the initramfs. Wi

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-02 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/01/2011 07:58 PM, Tom H wrote: > Poettering says in > his blog that you can have "/usr" on a separate partition if you mount > it in the initramfs. With dracut, it means using "--add fstab-sys" (or > adding "fstab-sys" to the "/etc/dracut.conf" modules list) and > creating an "/etc/fstab.sys"

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:44 PM, John Hinton wrote: > On 9/1/2011 1:19 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Simon Matter  wrote: >> >> from >> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86.html >> Do not place /usr on a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread John Hinton
On 9/1/2011 1:19 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Simon Matter wrote: > from > http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86.html > > Do not place /usr on a separate partition If /usr is on a separate > partition

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >> On 08/31/2011 08:51 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: >>> >>> In the past this was my partition scheme: >>> >>> Root filesystem (/) = 10240MB (10GB) >>> /boot = 200MB >>> swap =  1024MB (1GB) >>> /var = 20480MB (20GB) >>> /tmp = 10240MB (10GB) >>> /

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/01/2011 12:20 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >> On 08/31/2011 08:51 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: >>> In the past this was my partition scheme: >>> >>> Root filesystem (/) = 10240MB (10GB) >>> /boot = 200MB >>> swap = 1024MB (1GB) >>> /var = 20480MB (20GB) >>> /tmp = 10240MB (10GB) >>> /usr = 51200MB

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread m . roth
Always Learning wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 09:54 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> I missed the thread overnight (for me), but the way I used to recommend >> it is part of my article, which you can read at >> These days, our default here >> at work is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 09:54 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I missed the thread overnight (for me), but the way I used to recommend it > is part of my article, which you can read at > These days, our default here at > work is: > /boot is 200M (we'll prob

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread m . roth
Always Learning wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 15:19 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > >> just goes to show how well people actually read anything on the >> internet these days. and then they can't understand why the original >> poster gets irritated when he's told to use a hammer to hit the nail >> into

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 15:19 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > just goes to show how well people actually read anything on the > internet these days. and then they can't understand why the original > poster gets irritated when he's told to use a hammer to hit the nail > into the wall, when asked what co

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 10:07:01 PM Always Learning wrote: >> I assume your machine is a single user machine. If so, I would suggest > > He stated clearly in his request that this was for a server, by definition a > multi-user machine (eac

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 10:07:01 PM Always Learning wrote: > I assume your machine is a single user machine. If so, I would suggest He stated clearly in his request that this was for a server, by definition a multi-user machine (each server process should, after all, run as a unique user)

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Simon Matter
> On 08/31/2011 08:51 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: >> In the past this was my partition scheme: >> >> Root filesystem (/) = 10240MB (10GB) >> /boot = 200MB >> swap = 1024MB (1GB) >> /var = 20480MB (20GB) >> /tmp = 10240MB (10GB) >> /usr = 51200MB (50GB) >> /home = all remaining space on the drive >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Ken godee
> The server which is housed at the datacenter only has a single 1TB > drive. Just to confirm, LVM allows you to increase and decrease space on > any partition on the fly, but setting each volume manually with EXT4 is > a physical mount? > > If I were to set hard limits by setting each volume on E

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/31/11 6:51 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: > The server which is housed at the datacenter only has a single 1TB > drive. Just to confirm, LVM allows you to increase and decrease space on > any partition on the fly, but setting each volume manually with EXT4 is > a physical mount? shrinking file

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/31/11 7:43 PM, Always Learning wrote: > I read none of it. figures. the original post asked... > 1) What is a good partition map/schema for a server OS where it's > primary purpose is for a LAMP server, DNS (bind), and possibly gameservers and you take off on a tangent about multiple smal

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/31/2011 08:51 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: > In the past this was my partition scheme: > > Root filesystem (/) = 10240MB (10GB) > /boot = 200MB > swap = 1024MB (1GB) > /var = 20480MB (20GB) > /tmp = 10240MB (10GB) > /usr = 51200MB (50GB) > /home = all remaining space on the drive Having /usr

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 19:41 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > On 08/31/11 7:07 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > I assume > Which part of LAMP server didn't you read? I read none of it. Why ask such time-wasting questions ? Go and have a cup of tea, pull-out your network card and settle down for the ni

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/31/11 7:07 PM, Always Learning wrote: > I assume Which part of LAMP server didn't you read? -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 21:51 -0400, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: > Root filesystem (/) = 10240MB (10GB) > /boot = 200MB > swap = 1024MB (1GB) > /var = 20480MB (20GB) > /tmp = 10240MB (10GB) > /usr = 51200MB (50GB) > /home = all remaining space on the drive You can just allocate the drive and Centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 21:41 -0400, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: > Also, any help you can give me regarding a partition map would be great. I'm probably different to many of the others who seem to have fixed ideas. I'm relatively new to Linux but not to computers. I assume your machine is a single us

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
John, The server which is housed at the datacenter only has a single 1TB drive. Just to confirm, LVM allows you to increase and decrease space on any partition on the fly, but setting each volume manually with EXT4 is a physical mount? If I were to set hard limits by setting each volume on EXT

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/31/11 6:28 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: > 1) What is a good partition map/schema for a server OS where it's > primary purpose is for a LAMP server, DNS (bind), and possibly gameservers my servers generally have 2 disks mirrored for the OS, then 2 or more disks in a raid for the application f

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Paul, Thanks for your reply. I have heard the suggestion of not using SWAP which is fine. My curiosity on the SWAP subject is now what happens if all memory is used or an application has a memory leak. Does the server crash if there is no SWAP and all available RAM is used? Will SWAP cause per

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 21:28 -0400, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: > *Re-sending as it appears my original e-mail did not go through*. > Good Evening All, Bon soir. Both version of your email were received in Europe. On the subject of SWAP, I'm working on a standalone server with 8 GB RAM and a AMD

[CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
*Re-sending as it appears my original e-mail did not go through*. Good Evening All, I have a question regarding CentOS 6 server partitioning. Now I know there are a lot of different ways to partition the system and different opinions depending on the use of the server. I currently have a quad