Formatting HD

[Andy Smith]

Hi Michael,

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 09:32:14AM -0800, Michael S. Mason wrote:
> I am wanting to know the best way to format my two (2) hard drives... I 
> have two 250GB hard drives for use. What is the best way to accomplish 
> this?

I have to mostly agree with Matt.  My preferred way given this hardware
would be a small /, /boot and swap in RAID-1, then a RAID-1 as an
LVM PV from which logical volumes for most other things (/usr, /var/
and so on) would come.  The logical volumes would be quite small to
begin with as I'd grow them as needed to avoid wastage.

Ultimately there is no objective "best" layout, everyone has an
opinion.

Cheers,
Andy

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