On 08/31/11 6:28 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: > 1) What is a good partition map/schema for a server OS where it's > primary purpose is for a LAMP server, DNS (bind), and possibly gameservers my servers generally have 2 disks mirrored for the OS, then 2 or more disks in a raid for the application file systems, be they databases, web files, NFS shared data, or whatever. I generally make the OS raid an LVM volume, then allocate /, /var, swap, and maybe /home out of that. depending on what I'm doing, the data raid is probably also a LVM volume group, and would have things like /var/www, /var/lib/pgsql/9.0/data, as logical volumes, possibly /home, depending on usage patterns. but, my workloads are often disk IO intensive. Your Mileage May Vary. Objects In Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear. Caveat Emptor. etc etc. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast