[CentOS] Partitioning production server

[Rudi Ahlers]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:35 PM, admin lewis <adminlewis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have to install a production server with postgresql.. with few hundreds
> of MB (2-300)
> would u advice me to partitioning the disk ?
> The server will be under vmware environment with SAN as storage.
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Always partition the disk, it makes life so much easier.

I prefer to partion as follows:
/ = 10 - 20GB
/home = 10 GB, unless your application will use this
/swap = 4GB
/var = 10GB - gives you enough space for plenty log files


Use LVM, which allows you to shrink & grow partitions on the fly.


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