[CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

[Always Learning]

On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 09:54 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:

> I missed the thread overnight (for me), but the way I used to recommend it
> is part of my article, which you can read at
> <http://24.5-cent.us/upgrading_linux.doc> These days, our default here at
> work is:
> /boot is 200M (we'll probably be moving that up to 300M or 500M, given the
> preupgrade of fedora that will probably be coming down the pike).
> 2GB is swap
> and the rest of the drive is / (my manager doesn't like LVM, for some
> reason). home directories are *always* NFS mounted here; at home, it's
> *always* on a separate partition or drive, along with /opt, though I might
> start putting /usr/local there as well, given that some things seem to be
> moving back there from /opt.

Agreed /boot needs less (currently on C 5) than 200 MB.
Operating system in one partition on /
User data on a different partition or partitions.

> Sizing: remember, do NOT size for "typical", size for worst huge case,
> esp. for a production or development system that others will be using.

Agreed. 

Paul.