On 7/19/19 11:57 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > I was just given a Dell R720xd with 160 GB memory and 12x 900 GB drives > that I plan to deploy as my home mail/file/backup server to replace an > aging Supermicro server running CentOS 7. Yeah, it's gross overkill for > that and I expect to tuck most of the drives away for spares. > > How should I RAID and partition this beast for maximum reliability? > > My current C7 system is using 1 TB of 2 TB capacity on the root > partition (4x 1 TB drives in RAID 10). /boot is 300MB/50GB. Memory and > swap is 8GB each. As I read it, 500MB boot will be enough. My CentOS 7 server (with GUI) without /home uses some 15GB (of 24GB root partition) so anything over 20GB should be enough for root partiton. 8GB SWAP should be enough since you will not hibernate it. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant