Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:54 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >>>>> You can simply create two virtual disks from the single RAID-5 >>>>> volume. >>>> >>>> Create one that is like 500GB for the OS volume and then create a 2nd >>>> one which uses the remainder of the space. >>> >>> But pay attention to where you'd like /var, /home, /opt, etc to live. >>> You may want to make them symlinks into directories on your larger >>> volume if they each need space and you don't want separate >>> filesystems, but then you have to juggle things after the install. >>> >> I've long liked having /home, at least, and maybe /opt, where some >> things install by default, on other partitions than root. With the larger >> drives we're getting these days, we've modified out kickstart for pxeboot >> builds to give 500G to /, and everything else as one big partition. I've also >> considered making that / partition smaller - maybe 250G? or less, since >> / doesn't really need huge tracts of land... sorry, Monty Python flash >> there..... In any case, doing it that way lets you do a completely clean >> install, if necessary or desired. > > Is there a way to get /home, /var, and /opt installed as directories > on that other "one big partition"? /var in particular has an odd mix > of OS and 'your' data and logs that may turn out to be big. And you > may not know ahead of time what to allocate for it as a separate mount > point. > Here at work, /home is *always* NFS-mounted. Even so, I'd think 250G is easily big enough for / to include /var, even with a moderately large d/b there. mark