Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-09-02 Thread Devin Reade
You've already received some good responses so I won't rehash a lot of what was said. However here are few more comments without a lot of backing detail (but it should give you enough info to google for detail): 1. Despite the RedHat link someone provided, I think the advice of putting almost

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

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 12:03 PM, Devin Reade wrote: You've already received some good responses so I won't rehash a lot of what was said. However here are few more comments without a lot of backing detail (but

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-09-01 Thread ken
On 08/31/2011 09:21 PM Jonathan Vomacka wrote: 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 core intel

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-09-01 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, ken wrote: In the absence of actual evidence to the contrary, I'd go with the recommendations in the docs regarding swap. Personally, I think that advice needs updating for machines with large amounts of memory to include an upper bound. In general use I'm not sure I can

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-09-01 Thread Peter Kjellström
On Thursday, September 01, 2011 03:21:25 AM Jonathan Vomacka wrote: 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

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-09-01 Thread John Doe
From: Jonathan Vomacka juvi...@gmail.com I have a question regarding CentOS 6 server partitioning. http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86.html ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-09-01 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 09:21:25 PM Jonathan Vomacka wrote: I was recently told that this is an old style of partitioning and is not used in modern day Linux distributions. The only thing old-style I saw in your list was the separate /usr partition. I like having separate /var,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-09-01 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Lamar, Excellent email. Thank you so much you have been very informative!!! On 9/1/2011 11:29 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 09:21:25 PM Jonathan Vomacka wrote: I was recently told that this is an old style of partitioning and is not used in modern day Linux

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-09-01 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
John Doe, Thanks, This is a good read and makes me feel better about splitting partitions. On 9/1/2011 11:17 AM, John Doe wrote: From: Jonathan Vomackajuvi...@gmail.com I have a question regarding CentOS 6 server partitioning.

[CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-08-31 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
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 core intel system running 8GB of RAM with 1 TB hard drive