Hi Mark, Thanks for the reply. >> 2. Create a RAID 1 out of that partition and use a mount point of /boot > > Only if you want to mirror the boot partition. Doesn't one want to mirror that 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. > <snip> Right, I get that, but what is fuzzy is it you, say have a drive with a few partitions that you don't mirror and a few that you do, doesn't the drive you are mirroring to have unused space equal to the amount of the partitions you are not mirroring? >> 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). Thanks. > 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 am not as familiar with LVM as I should be, do you have a link to info/tutorial? -Jason