Alfred von Campe wrote: > The recent thread on Anaconda and RAID10 made me start to think about > how to partition a server I'm about to set up. I have two 146GB SCSI > drives on an IBM x3550. It will be used as a build system. As such, > there is no critical data on these systems, as the source code will be > checked out of our source control system, and the build results are > copied to another system. I usually build my systems with Kickstart, so > if a disk dies, I can rebuild it quickly. I used kickstart, pxe, tftp and dhcp to manage a cluster of mail servers. Two disk 1U boxes too. /, swap, /var (logging was to a central log host). > > Given all that, how would you partition these disks? I keep going back > and forth between various options (HW RAID, SW RAID, LVM, etc.). I > guess speed is more important to me than redundancy. I'm tempted to > install the OS on one drive and use the entire second drive for data. > This way I can rebuild or upgrade the OS without touching the data. But > that will waste a lot of disk space, as the OS does not need 146GB. A scsi raid controller with write cache? Hardware raid definitely. Especially if the driver supports the write cache. > > The only thing I'm pretty sure of is to put 2GB of swap on each drive, > but after that everything is still in the air. I am looking for any and > all suggestions from the collective wisdom and experience of this list. swap should go on a raid1 device whether partition or swap file.