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 at 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?