LAMP Production Server - Dell 2850

[Michael Hipp]

> From: "Alejandro Sanchez Marín" <asmarin at us.es>
> 
> Logical drive 0: Put here / and swap partition if you need it.
> 
> Logical drive 1: Use LVM to split RAID5 hardware into 3 partitions and
> put here /var, /usr and /home partitions. About partition distribution....
> 
> /home = 300 users * quota space for each one
> /var= 70% of raid5 - /home
> /usr= 30% of raid5 - /home
> 
> Using LVM on your RAID5 you will say something like that (example from
> linux RAID howto, dont see values like optimal for you....):
> 
> # df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/md0              942M  419M  475M  47% /
> /dev/vg0/backup        40G  1.3M   39G   1% /backup
> /dev/vg0/amdata       496M  237M  233M  51% /var/lib/amanda
> /dev/vg0/mirror        62G   56G  2.9G  96% /mnt/mirror
> /dev/vg0/webroot       97M  6.5M   85M   8% /var/www
> /dev/vg0/local        2.0G  458M  1.4G  24% /usr/local
> /dev/vg0/netswap      3.0G  2.1G 1019M  67% /mnt/netswap

I noticed you're not using a separate /boot partition. Is this no longer considered best practice?

Thanks,
Michael