Help on allocating drive space...

From: Max (maximkh_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/22/04 

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:45:24 -0400

Here's my situation, I'm installing Fedora Core 2 onto 3 40 GB drives.
I'd like to get a few suggestions as far as what would be the best way
to allocate the space for a light-weight server. I'm planning on using
this machine mostly for mail and ftp server roles, but I want some data
protection. Since I've got 3 drives I'm looking into creating a RAID-5
software array, but need some help with the details. First of all, this
is on a PIII 1GHz system with 512MB of PC133 ram, will a RAID-5 array
use too much processing power since it's all done by software? Also, how
do I go about setting up swap and /boot? I think /boot can't be on
RAID-5 if I remember correctly, so what I was actually thinking is
this... I allocate 1024MB on the first drive for /boot, then I take
1024MB from the 2 remaining drives and set them into RAID-0 for quick
swap, and finally the remaining space will be used as RAID-5 for /. What
do you think of this, will it work, and what other things would you
recommend for me?

Btw, I haven’t been using linux all that long, so if you’re going to
make some suggestions please nothing too complicated or at least explain
them well. Thanks.

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