On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Eight years ago, I wrote an article for SysAdmin, suggesting a > straight partition for /boot and root, and lvm for /home and /var, > and /usr. These days, I might say RAID 1 for /boot and /, and RAID > or not for swap, and another raid partition for everything else: > home, other data directories.... That's pretty much in line with our practice for standalone machines: * /boot -- RAID 1 * / -- RAID 1 * /srv -- RAID 1 or 5, and it may not even be broken out * /home -- NAS (RAID 10, if it matters) For VMs, there's just swap and /. > At work, we're going to not more than 500G for /, but I'm thinking a > lot less: I just rebuilt my own system at home, and gave / 150G, I > think, and I have /var there (though I'd put web stuff elsewhere > than on /). A RAID 1 of (relatively) inexpensive 80GB or 120GB SSDs are my default for swap and the root filesystem. Larger /srv filesystems, and the NAS holding /home, still require spinning platters on our budget. -- Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W