On 01/30/2014 10:27 PM, 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. > What type of network/filesystem connection between VM's and storage you create (NFS, native, separate partitions....)? -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant