Ubuntu Preseed Raid 1 with multiple partitions

[Liam Proven]

On 3 June 2013 21:28, Camilo Vieira <camilo.vieira at gmail.com> wrote:
> I intend to create the following RAID 1:
>
>     Partition    Size         Filesystem
>         /        20GB            ext4
>         /boot    500MB            ext4
>         swap    2GB            swap
>        /backup    10GB            ext4
>        /opt     all free size     ext4

Why such a complex layout?

E.g. why mirror swap? Indeed on a well-specced machine why use swap at all?

For servers, I use a mirror pair for / and a RAID5 for /home and
that's it. No need to split out /boot, /var, /opt and all that any
more, not when a terabyte costs the same as a good meal.

I keep /home separate. I give about 16-32GB to / and the rest to
/home. Job done.


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