[COLUG] Partition Size

[Chris Clonch]

On Sunday 09 December 2007 3:30:07 Duane wrote:
> Thomas W. Cranston wrote:
> > How much space in MB do I need to give to /boot, /, swap, and home on a
> > 10 GB partition?
>
> If you absolutely *HAVE* to split a file system over partitions think
> about using LVM2/EVMS etc, this way when you use too much/too little on
> one partition or the other you can play swappy changey.

Logical volumes are definitely the way to go.  Plus you get the snapshot 
ability for backing up partitions.

> Are there any really good reasons for actually splitting physical drives
> up these days other then grub and lilo etc don't seem to like being on a
> non-physical partition or at best raid1?

For a desktop system, probably not.  But I think it is still a good idea for 
servers.  Not really for space allocation but mounting filesystems read-only, 
using multiple filesystems. etc.

> I think grub2 can handle lvm+raid, but I had trouble getting grub2 to
> install boot information reliably across multiple drives in software
> raid5+lvm configuration.


-Chris