Best practices for partitioning hdds?

Pablo Iranzo Gómez Pablo.Iranzo at redhat.com
Mon Mar 10 08:21:08 UTC 2008


	Sorry, I meant for checking partition layout:  number or partitions,
sizes, etc (something like the $(list-harddrives) buf for partitions.

	Thanks John
	Pablo

El lun, 10-03-2008 a las 17:08 +0900, John Summerfield escribió:
> Pablo Iranzo Gómez wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Michael DeHaan wrote:
> >> Pablo Iranzo Gómez wrote:
> >>> 	The idea is to have one layout that could be deployed on
> >>> "non-compliant" disks, and to keep the one existing on "compliant" ones.
> >> Can you clarify what "complaint" and "non-compliant" mean?
> > 
> > Sorry, I mean:
> > 
> > 	I want one part for /boot, one for LVM, and one for vfat, having
> > that schema would be considered "compliant" if part sizes are at least a
> > min size, if not, and if drive is bigger, trash the disk and repartition
> > with that schema.
> 
> "best Practice" doesn't mean a lot in this context. For a desktop I tend 
> to go with  /boot and /therest.
> If you want some space to share with windows, then decide how big it 
> should be, and give the rest to Linux.
> 
> How much to give to Windows depends on your requirements. If you want to 
> share up to one DVD image, then 5 Gbytes.
> 
> If you want everyone to have the same layout, nothing says you have to 
> use the entire disk. Leaving some free allows for the occasional user 
> who might want more space for this or that, maybe to share with Windows.
> 
> If you're setting up servers, that might be different, but it still 
> depends on your requirements. _I_ am not keen on lots of partitions on 
> one drive, but if I were settingg up EL on a zSeries I might do things 
> differently from an entry-level xServer.
> 
> 
> 
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