Hi Steve can you post your last recommendaton layout of partioning scheme.... On 11/5/07, Steve Phillips <steve@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Mad Unix wrote: > > What you think about this? > > > > /boot ---> local disk > > Questionable - see below, but hey - people seem to love partitioning > things. > > > / ----> localdisk > > swap ------> localdisk > > > > /tmp -----> SAN > > I'd keep that local, you have enough space - either mount it as a tmpfs > system (ala solaris) or just make it part of the root FS, optimally, if > you are going for security, make it a seperate partition (tmpfs or local > disk) and mount it with the nonexec flags set as well. > > (note: tmpfs is basically a ramdisk like filesystem that is virtual and > gets wipes at reboot) > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMPFS > > > /usr ------> SAN > > this is a _really bad_ idea. > > A lot of the time, you can get yourself in trouble if you are not > exceptionally careful about what is called at boot, and these days a lot > of stuff sits off /usr and you could accidentally isolate something that > needs to be run to allow - say, the SAN to come online. > > Back in the day, people used to partition stuff lots simply because > there was no such thing as a large hard drive (ok, this is not 100% > correct, but pretty close) - a lot of people claimed it was for data > retention incase of a system/drive crash, but seriously, how many people > that claim this do you know that have HAD a headcrash on a drive and > then tried to reconstruct data from the other segments of the drive - > generally when a drive crashes it will take out pretty much all the of > device rendering it ALL unusable. (and again, yes, at times you DO try > to reconstruct the data but it is NOT a common event and you can cause > more problems than you solve with this file system fragmentation that > everyone seems dead keen on) > > Your best protection is NOT more partitions it is things like RAID (i'd > mirror those two local disks) and good backups with a _tested_ restore > process. > > > > /home -----> SAN > > This seems ok > > > /opt -----> SAN > > Yup > > > /var -------> SAN > > I'd tend to keep this local as well - in particular, as the logs and > stuff tend to go there as well as other ancillary things (/var/run and > /var/tmp) that are used to bring the system up, it means that in event > of SAN failure you can still actually boot the system and have it semi > workable. > > > /u01 -----> SAN > > Yup. > > -- > Steve > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- madunix -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
