Re: Suggestions for Partitions on a 40G drive


"Malke" <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Mike Fields wrote:


"Hachiroku" <Trueno@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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We are setting up a server running SuSE 10.1, and we want to separate
partitions according to function.

I know someone suggested setting up a boot partition and then on a
separate partition the User space.

How many partitions should we create, and what should their sizes be?
We have approx 125 users.
Also we have a 20G drive, a 17G drive and the 40G drive. We want to
set up a system for inventorying our system, and what they have for
software, both company installed and user installed.

The 17G is a SCSI drive, and the other two are IDE. We are wondering
if GRUB will let us boot of the SCSI drive or will prioritize one of
the IDEs as a boot drive.

Any Ideas? Thanks! The machine is a slightly older Gateway 7400R
server.

I'm not sure what others are going to say, but for 125 users,
I would give serious consideration to at least a 300 gig drive
(saw them advertised this week at Fry's for $90 usd). If
any of your users start doing anything with things like pictures
etc, your 40 gig goes pretty fast.

mikey

I'm with you, Mikey. I can't imagine putting 125 users on a 40GB drive!
I'd ditch the smaller drives completely, use the 40GB drive for swap
and / and put in a 300GB drive (as long as the BIOS supports large
drives) for /home and leave it at that.

Malke
--
It is very dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

Unfortunately, we have to work with what we have for now.
The drive space is just additional space added to the Windows 2003 servers
we have, sort of a place to 'archive' some of the stuff off the 2003
servers. They will still be the primary storage for our users, with the
Linux drive as a reserve.
Really, I picked up a 300G for $99 at Staples, but we haven't got that in
the budget right now.

So, the question still stands: what can we do with what we have? We want to
have a separate boot partition and a separate storage partition. How big
should our boot partition be, which drive will GRUB let us boot from, and
what should we use for mount points?

My idea was to set up a 5G boot partition and load everything but the User
space there.
Or, set up a 2G partition, and just install /boot there, and load everything
else in a different partition. What we want is the easiest way to recover in
the even of a failure, so our data remains where it is and we can reload the
boot configurations if we need to.


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