partitioning server

[Fred Roller]

Patton Echols wrote:
> I am building a server that will have fairly low traffic for home use.  
> The primary uses are data storage and backup for a mixed linux/windows 
> home network and offsite / remote backup of my office network.  It is to 
> be a three disk system, the "small" disk, 200gb, will hold the OS and a 
> pair of 1tb drives will be configured RAID 1 for the data. 
>
> Since this is the first time I have built a server, I don't know if 
> there are best practices for what should go where.  Anyone have thoughts 
> they can share?
>
>   
I have a server that is set up for a similar purpose and my laptop
follows suit.  My laptop partion is such:

froller at metis:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              19G  4.8G   13G  28% /
[snipped OS stuff]
/dev/sdb1             459G  130G  306G  30% /Crypt
/dev/sda4             429G   78G  329G  20% /Isolibrary
/dev/sda2             4.6G  138M  4.3G   4% /tmp

I only give the OS a 20 Gb partition.  Crypt is where I keep data that
is accessed regularly and /Isolibrary is archival in nature.  My swap is
on sda3.  The advantage for me is data security.  When/If I have to
rebuild the 20 Gb drive is all that needs to be reformatted.  I
symbolically link number of things to the /Crypt partition.

Aside from some eye candy the system can usually be back up in under an
hour.  The server is faster because of no GUI.  You just need to do a
manual partition at installation.  RAID will fit in with this
methodology as I have rebuild with raid as well.

Good luck, hope this helps.

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Fred
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"Life is like linux, simple.  If you are fighting it you are doing 
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