Re: Home Office PHP Web Server : HD Configuration

2021-06-02 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
I will +1 LVM as well. on top of the above, the LVM caching is pretty slick as well. And so far zfs is also very interesting. On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 2:46 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I would disagree there is little benefit to using lvm with a

Re: Home Office PHP Web Server : HD Configuration

2021-05-31 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
I would disagree there is little benefit to using lvm with a single disk, unless you only use it as a raid mechanism, which I don't. Otherwise, I tend to compartmentalize my os for root, var, var/log, home, usr, and others, but occasionally I need to grow them over time, even adding another

Re: Home Office PHP Web Server : HD Configuration

2021-05-31 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Thanks Michael and Matt, On 2021-05-27 17:33, Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss wrote: On 2021-05-26 17:32, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 2:24 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss I am running a 250GB SSD. It will be entirely dedicated to the server. In reading the

Re: Home Office PHP Web Server : HD Configuration

2021-05-27 Thread Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss
On 2021-05-26 17:32, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 2:24 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss I am running a 250GB SSD. It will be entirely dedicated to the server. In reading the docs there is an option of using the entire disk for LVM and there will be two

Re: Home Office PHP Web Server : HD Configuration

2021-05-27 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
I created some docs how to build a few different setups, but mine always include encryption or raid that most don't do. I can forward some snippets to help if you like, I've done this on ubuntu for some 10+ years, later arch, but vm's I just do a base lvm setup for running atop this. I don't

Re: Home Office PHP Web Server : HD Configuration

2021-05-27 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Thank you for your feedback Michael. Seems like the list might be dying off. On 2021-05-26 17:32, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: I run everything through LVM after about the second time I crashed my root partition on plain ext2 by filling it entirely, at least probably 10-12 years now.

Re: Home Office PHP Web Server : HD Configuration

2021-05-26 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
I run everything through LVM after about the second time I crashed my root partition on plain ext2 by filling it entirely, at least probably 10-12 years now. LVM2 doesn't crash it like that even if filled, or cause a full fsck of fscking time and other weird catastrophic restoration of services.

Home Office PHP Web Server : HD Configuration

2021-05-26 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Hi, I've installed Linux many times. For the last few times I just chose the defaults for configuring the HD. I am running a 250GB SSD. It will be entirely dedicated to the server. In reading the docs there is an option of using the entire disk for LVM and there will be two partitions, one