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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]
Message-ID: <CAA2qdGWOLoAD83q2R89KCD0Xy-_ESc=Ffgxpk9KBt7QDAtTJ+A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGK8UzDT07BSonvox5WVGLgd-ugAMmzuFY6TEbcSthgvGCJFVg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Nov 26, 2011 9:05 AM, "Volker Armin Hemmann" <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
wrote:
>
>
>
> 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.
>

Indeed.

>>
>>
>> (And while we're at it, am I overdoing the partitioning?)
>
>
> yes, a lot.
>

:-)

Rgds,

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-26  2:57 UTC|newest]

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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