Paul Heinlein wrote: > 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. That's a *huge* amount of swap - we settled, years ago, and I think upstream recommends, 2G. Now, around here, our servers have *significantly* more than 2G, and if we see anything in swap, we know something's wrong. mark