Re: Wise disk parting.

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 01:16:51 +0700,
Strong <strong_yethumble@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 11:00:59 -0500 "Lamar Owen" <lowen@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have typically partitioned with four partitions:
200MB or so /boot
swap equal to RAM size on late 2.6 kernels
8-10GB /
remainder /home
Could You explain/argument the partitioning, please?
1. Why separate /boot?

There are restrictions on /boot since it needs to be read before the system
is up and running (i.e. by grub). Currently it can't be encrypted and is
limited to using only raid 1 for software raid (because the layout for
a single raid 1 element can be used ignoring raid when just reading).

Grub doesn't do LVM either, whereas RH/Fedora defaults to using LVM.

Also, some systems' BIOS can't read all the disk. I thought the problem was long solved, then got bitten and I've not finished being twice shy yet.

Probably it really is long solved, now.



--

Cheers
John

-- spambait
1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Z1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-- Advice
http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

Please do not reply off-list

--
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Server Configuration
    ... It's always a good idea to separate the log from the data files onto ... > of a concern in an environment like mine, where the transaction rate is ... and Data) on separate RAIDs--that would be 3 RAIDs in one box! ... >> RAID you might want to see if you can't do a RAID 1+0 instead of 5. ...
    (microsoft.public.sqlserver.setup)
  • Re: SQL installation recommendations
    ... a lot of the advantages being gained by having separate arrays/drives..... ... This will usually require two RAID adapters. ... One with two internal channels ... > Jasper Smith (SQL Server MVP) ...
    (microsoft.public.sqlserver.setup)
  • Re: More redundancy for cd images. Use Raid?
    ... like you understand the kind of error correction offered by RAID 5. ... --Sir Jackery ... Every write to the raid cluster should result in striping across these ... I can't access them the way I would access separate partitions on a hard ...
    (alt.os.linux)
  • logical drive setup questions with RAID/Windows/Exchange
    ... What would be your recommended RAID setup of the drives to ... Is it better to have two separate logical RAID drives (eg mirrored for OS, ... I think it would be better if I could keep the Exchange store ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.general)
  • Re: SBS 2003 Partition Questions
    ... I don't think Allen was referring to Raid 10, ... separate Raid arrays - a 2-disk mirror for the OS, and a Raid 5 for the ... could fail, you could survive 2 simultaneous disk failures, ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)