John, The server which is housed at the datacenter only has a single 1TB drive. Just to confirm, LVM allows you to increase and decrease space on any partition on the fly, but setting each volume manually with EXT4 is a physical mount? If I were to set hard limits by setting each volume on EXT4 (not using the LVM option), do you recommend only setting up a /, /boot, and SWAP? In the past this was my partition scheme: Root filesystem (/) = 10240MB (10GB) /boot = 200MB swap = 1024MB (1GB) /var = 20480MB (20GB) /tmp = 10240MB (10GB) /usr = 51200MB (50GB) /home = all remaining space on the drive Is the above a bad partition? On 8/31/2011 9:45 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > 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. > > > >