Re: Recommended Partitioning Scheme for a server.

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:42:11PM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens vitalstream com] 
> >>Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 4:05 PM
> >>To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> >>Subject: Re: Recommended Partitioning Scheme for a server.
> >>
> << much, much snippage>>
> >>Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> >>>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens vitalstream com]
> >>You want separate partitions for a number of good reasons:
> >>
> >>1)	If a filesystem craps out, you only have to restore the data for
> >>that specific filesystem, not the entire damned machine.
> >
> >
> >Agreed, Just in this case, the filesystem that keeps the machine running
> >is only about 3GB of real data.  The actual users data is going to be on
> >15-30 different filesystems when deployed.  To spread the risk of that
> >happening.  For example:
> >
> >Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> >/dev/cciss/c0d0p2     6.7G  2.1G  4.3G  33% /
> >none                  503M     0  503M   0% /dev/shm
> >/dev/cciss/c0d2p1     734G  3.3G  693G   1% 
> >/dev/vg00/lvol01       52G   44G  6.2G  88% (mount points been deleted
> >for security reasons)
> >/dev/vg00/lvol02       43G   40G  1.3G  97% 
> >/dev/vg00/lvol03      2.9G  1.9G  921M  68% 
> >/dev/vg00/lvol04       45G   34G   10G  77% 
> >/dev/vg00/lvol05      4.8G  3.4G  1.2G  73% 
> >/dev/vg00/lvol06      960M   76M  836M   9% 
> >/dev/vg00/lvol07      1.4G  1.1G  327M  77% 
> >/dev/vg00/lvol08      1.9G  1.2G  669M  65% 
> >/dev/vg00/lvol09      2.0G  1.6G  335M  83% 
> >/dev/vg00/lvol10      387M  301M   67M  82% 
> >/dev/vg00/lvol11       84G   75G  7.1G  92% 
> >/dev/vg00/lvol12       42G   35G  6.1G  85% 
> >/dev/vg00/lvol13      3.3G  2.2G  929M  71% 
> >/dev/vg00/lvol14      2.9G  2.4G  390M  87% 
> >/dev/vg00/lvol15      496M   33M  443M   7% /tmp
> >/dev/vg00/lvol16      6.8G  5.7G  796M  88% 
> >/dev/vg00/lvol17      4.6G  2.9G  1.5G  66% 
> >
> >(oh.. Don't mind the 734GB drive, it's not staying like that, it's only
> >that way to play around with it real quick.)
> 
> Perfect.  That's the way to do it.  I assume you're using some form of
> hash to sort out who's directory goes where?

Umm, that's "... sort out _whose_ directory ..."  "Who's" might be a
contraction for "who is", as in "Who's your ninth-grade English
teacher?"  (The answer is, "I am." :-P) 

Tag.  You're it. ;-)

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