On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:49 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote: > Only if you want to mirror the boot partition. >> >> 3. Create other mount points I might want i.e swap, /home, etc >> 4. Create RAID1 out of these partitions > > Only if you want each directory RAIDed. DO NOT mirror swap. Bad idea. You want to mirror swap. If a drive fails your swap immediately goes offline. If an application had memory in swap it is now lost. >> A few questions: >> >> 1. This system support 16gb of RAM. I have 9gb in it, but I will max it >> out over the next few months as I find great deals on RAM, what should my >> SWAP space be? I recall a long while ago that SWAP should match physical >> RAM. > > Nope. Received Wisdom said 2-2.5 times RAM. However, in these days of in > insanely huge amounts of RAM, it's not really important. At work, I just > make swap 2G for everything (and trust me, we've got servers that make > your memory look piddly). I do the same 1-2GB for swap. The servers hardly every touch swap as they have enough memory. >> >> 2. Any reason I can't just create a single mount point taking up the >> entire drive and RAID1 the entire thing? Can anyone recommend some ideal >> mount points and sizes? > > Nope, no reason. >> >> 3. What should I account for if my /var/www/html will be very large? > > My manager here doesn't like LVM; but if it were me, I'd make that > /var/www an LVM virtual partition. That way, you can always add another > drive and thow more space into it. I only use LVM if I need the features if offers. Otherwise it is just extra overhead. Ryan