From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:56:15 +0700 [thread overview]
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On Nov 26, 2011 9:05 AM, "Volker Armin Hemmann" <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
wrote:
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>
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> 2011/11/25 Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
>>
>> I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is
>> highly-partitioned, like this:
>>
>> /
>> /boot
>
>
> okay
>
>>
>> /usr
>
>
> why? just makes your life harder.
>
Why will it make my life harder.
>>
>> /tmp
>
>
> okay
>
>>
>> /usr/portage ==> via NFS
>
>
> if it makes you happy...
>
The portage tree will be shared among Gentoo boxen.
>>
>> /var
>
>
> okay
>
>>
>> /var/lib/postgresql
>
>
> ?
>
I'm using PostgreSQL, and the database IMO should be safely kept in a
separate partition.
>> /var/tmp
>
>
> okay
>
>>
>> /var/log
>
>
> why?
>
Postfix's log files are huge.
>> /var/spool
>
>
> why?
Postfix.
>>
>>
>> (Not all of them will reside on the same physical disk; I have
>> /dev/sda up to /dev/sdd)
>>
>> I've been searching high and low for recommended numbers... and there
>> are as many number as search-hits.
>>
>> So. Care to share your partitioning strategy?
>
>
> if you really have to split up /var like this, do yourself some favours
and spread it over several disks. Also don't put /var and /usr on the same
disk.
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Indeed.
>>
>>
>> (And while we're at it, am I overdoing the partitioning?)
>
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> yes, a lot.
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:-)
Rgds,
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-25 13:53 [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...? Pandu Poluan
2011-11-25 13:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Pandu Poluan
2011-11-25 19:02 ` Francesco Talamona
2011-11-25 21:43 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-25 14:35 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2011-11-25 16:12 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-25 16:25 ` Jarry
2011-11-25 16:30 ` Mark Knecht
2011-11-25 17:23 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-25 20:07 ` Dale
2011-11-25 20:15 ` Dale
2011-11-25 21:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-25 23:47 ` Dale
2011-11-26 8:05 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-25 17:56 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2011-11-25 18:31 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-26 8:03 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-26 8:32 ` Dale
2011-11-25 18:58 ` Francesco Talamona
2011-11-25 20:22 ` Dale
2011-11-25 20:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2011-11-26 18:22 ` Mick
2011-11-26 19:05 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-26 21:07 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-25 21:46 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-25 23:58 ` Dale
2011-11-26 21:30 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-26 1:16 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-26 23:01 ` Alex Schuster
2011-11-26 23:32 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-26 23:43 ` Mark Knecht
2011-11-26 23:50 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-26 23:58 ` Mark Knecht
2011-11-27 8:02 ` Róbert Čerňanský
2011-11-27 8:12 ` Dale
2011-11-27 8:29 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-27 9:31 ` Alex Schuster
2011-11-25 17:00 ` Stéphane Guedon
2011-11-25 17:53 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-25 18:17 ` Mark Knecht
2011-11-25 19:14 ` Stéphane Guedon
2011-11-25 19:51 ` Walter Dnes
2011-11-25 20:09 ` Mark Knecht
2011-11-25 20:30 ` Stéphane Guedon
2011-11-26 0:11 ` Dale
2011-11-25 21:58 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-26 1:27 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-11-26 2:56 ` Pandu Poluan [this message]
2011-11-26 7:54 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-26 18:42 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-26 20:58 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-26 21:08 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-26 19:24 ` kashani
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