I am familiar with centos and this forum, and have some rhel / centos questions. Therefore I'm asking the question here
I am about to install rhel4.5 on a hp dl380 with 4 disc's. The standard rhel installation installers all in one partition? Will there be any advantage of splitting the file system up? What would be a good recommended partition table for a server running scripts handling big amount of transactions?
Normally i would do something like this, but i need to ask the question since I haven't installed on a production machine before /boot /opt /usr /var /tmp /home
An other thing, I haven't installed rhel before, only centos and notice a difference in that yum is not a part of rhel, and later figuring out that no updates are possible since I installed without the graphics's. Are there other significant differences between CentOS and RHEL?
On 8/13/07, kai centos@sandsengen.com wrote:
I am familiar with centos and this forum, and have some rhel / centos questions. Therefore I'm asking the question here
I am about to install rhel4.5 on a hp dl380 with 4 disc's. The standard rhel installation installers all in one partition? Will there be any advantage of splitting the file system up? What would be a good recommended partition table for a server running scripts handling big amount of transactions?
Depends on what type of server. Webserver, mail server, sql server etc. What's the primary fuction?
Normally i would do something like this, but i need to ask the question since I haven't installed on a production machine before /boot /opt /usr /var /tmp /home
You don't need to split /opt and /usr out usually unless you plan to customize/use them heavily.
/tmp is good to split out for noexec mounts. I do this as another layer to security for my webservers. It'll by no means stop attacks, but every little bit helps, and I like to make my servers as uninviting to maladjusted folks as I can.
An other thing, I haven't installed rhel before, only centos and notice a difference in that yum is not a part of rhel, and later figuring out that no updates are possible since I installed without the graphics's. Are there other significant differences between CentOS and RHEL?
CentOS comes with yum, because it's better than up2date, and the backend to up2date is not GPL'd. In RHEL5 redhat has done away with up2date themselves, and use yum as the prefered mechanism.
As to the second part of your statement, I'm a little confused as to why you think this. Other than some different artwork and the inclusion of yum in centos < 5, it's nearly identical to RHEL (this is one of the specific goals of the distro), and updates are very much possible without a gui. What sort of trouble are you having with updates?
Jim Perrin wrote:
/tmp is good to split out for noexec mounts. I do this as another layer to security for my webservers. It'll by no means stop attacks, but every little bit helps, and I like to make my servers as uninviting to maladjusted folks as I can.
Does this work with logrotate by now?
Cheers,
Ralph
Additional question: When the installer is setting the swap it sets it to be 1984MB, the memory is 4096 in to banks? How come? Has this something to do with the raid 1+0
Jim Perrin wrote:
On 8/13/07, kai centos@sandsengen.com wrote:
What would be a good recommended partition table for a server running scripts handling big amount of transactions?
Depends on what type of server. Webserver, mail server, sql server etc. What's the primary fuction?
It's calculating the numbers in an sql base, but not running the sql server
Normally i would do something like this, but i need to ask the question since I haven't installed on a production machine before /boot /opt /usr /var /tmp /home
You don't need to split /opt and /usr out usually unless you plan to customize/use them heavily.
/tmp is good to split out for noexec mounts. I do this as another layer to security for my webservers. It'll by no means stop attacks, but every little bit helps, and I like to make my servers as uninviting to maladjusted folks as I can.
An other thing, I haven't installed rhel before, only centos and notice a difference in that yum is not a part of rhel, and later figuring out that no updates are possible since I installed without the graphics's. Are there other significant differences between CentOS and RHEL?
CentOS comes with yum, because it's better than up2date, and the backend to up2date is not GPL'd. In RHEL5 redhat has done away with up2date themselves, and use yum as the prefered mechanism.
As to the second part of your statement, I'm a little confused as to why you think this. Other than some different artwork and the inclusion of yum in centos < 5, it's nearly identical to RHEL (this is one of the specific goals of the distro), and updates are very much possible without a gui. What sort of trouble are you having with updates?
I am not familiar with the up2date,. I have only been using yum on centos. Browsing trough the documentation I am a little confused.. I don't want to do the job twice or faulty by not installing what I need.. Will I be able to register with the up2date --register command?
kai wrote:
I am familiar with centos and this forum, and have some rhel / centos questions. Therefore I'm asking the question here
I am about to install rhel4.5 on a hp dl380 with 4 disc's. The standard rhel installation installers all in one partition? Will there be any advantage of splitting the file system up? What would be a good recommended partition table for a server running scripts handling big amount of transactions?
Normally i would do something like this, but i need to ask the question since I haven't installed on a production machine before /boot /opt /usr /var /tmp /home
I assume this would be something like /boot on its own partition and everything else on one partition and stuffed into a LVM?
I put swap and all filesystems on a LVM except for /boot.
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