Ubuntu Preseed Raid 1 with multiple partitions

[Camilo Vieira]

I'll split out /var. Thanks!


2013/6/3 Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com>

> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Why not? Although a separate "/opt" on Linux is weird. (I'll assume
> that "/backup" and its size make sense.)
>
>
> > E.g. why mirror swap? Indeed on a well-specced machine why use swap at
> all?
>
> Why not mirror swap? If for no other reason than ease of partitioning.
> You could also use both sides of the mirror as two swap partitions.
>
> If you don't want to use swap, you have to over-provision RAM; and
> disks are cheaper than memory...
>
>
> > 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.
>
> Splitting out "/var" is good practice on a server.
>
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