[CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Always Learning wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 09:54 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>
>> I missed the thread overnight (for me), but the way I used to recommend
>> it is part of my article, which you can read at
>> <http://24.5-cent.us/upgrading_linux.doc> These days, our default here
>> at work is:
>> /boot is 200M (we'll probably be moving that up to 300M or 500M, given
>> the
>> preupgrade of fedora that will probably be coming down the pike).
>> 2GB is swap
>> and the rest of the drive is / (my manager doesn't like LVM, for some
>> reason). home directories are *always* NFS mounted here; at home, it's
>> *always* on a separate partition or drive, along with /opt, though I
>> might start putting /usr/local there as well, given that some things
>> seem to be moving back there from /opt.
>
> Agreed /boot needs less (currently on C 5) than 200 MB.

That's where I disagree, actually: in the future, I'll be putting either
300M or 500M on /boot, having used preupgrade to bring one system from
fedora 9? 10? to 13, and I had to delete and delete from /boot to squeeze
it in - it seems to want to install most of the base o/s, and is
*bloated*, that it wants a *lot* of space... and I'm sure we'll see that
reflected in CentOS in CentOS 7 or so.
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