Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

[kashani]

On 11/25/2011 5:53 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
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> So. Care to share your partitioning strategy?

I'm not a fan of building servers outta parts. If this is a proper 
server with a raid card, which is useful for high IO things like mail 
and db servers, then your favorite RAID level, /boot / swap and the rest 
in /var.

If they are separate drives then put the OS/portage on one, Postgres on 
another, Postfix on one, and logging on the last for the best IO. I'd 
call them /mnt/postgres /mnt/postfix and /mnt/logging so the sysadmin 
that comes after you isn't completely confused as to what's going on.

If IO isn't a huge priority I'd put the OS/Portage on one and then 
softraid the three drives into /data or some such and symlink Postgres, 
logging, and Postfix as appropriate.

> (And while we're at it, am I overdoing the partitioning?)

Yes, though you'll do it anyway. It's cool, I was spending time on the 
same thing ten years ago. It's ultimately more annoying than useful and 
you'll simplify later.

LVM is always good to know and very useful for snapshotting database 
backups. I find it less useful for changing partitions or adding drives.

In regards to filling up partitions monitoring, cron, and logrotate are 
your friends. I email at 70% and page at 80%.

kashani