Installing RHEL AS3 to a RAID 5 w/ LVM?

Benjamin J. Weiss benjamin at Weiss.name
Wed Sep 1 12:36:24 UTC 2004


I've been reading the docs, but I'd like some practical experience on this 
one, since I'll have pretty much one time to get this correct.

I'm getting ready to install RHEL AS3 to a Dell PowerEdge 2650.  It came 
from the factory with 5 SCSI disks pre-configured into a single RAID-5 
(135GB).

I've never used LVM, I've always used Disk Druid to partition drives.  
>From the docs LVM seems to be a good idea, as I'm not completely sure how 
much space I'm going to need for a couple of the 
partitions/volumes/whatever.

My server will be running a MySQL database with a Tomcat4 front end.  

I was thinking of creating a regular /boot partition of 200meg, and the 
rest LVM, with:

swap	 2GB
/tmp 	10GB
/var	70GB
/usr	 4GB
/	10GB
unalloc whatever's left, about 40GB

Questions:

1) Would using LVM for all of the non-boot "partitions" make sense in this 
case?

2) Does the above "partitioning" scheme make sense?  I don't know how big 
the mysql database will get, but IIRC, the data files are stored under the 
/var tree, so I wanted to make sure that it had room to grow.

Comments?

Thanks!

Ben





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