Formatting HD

[Matt Kassawara]

1) You probably don't need 300 MB for /boot unless you plan to keep more
than a few old kernels around... I'd go with 100 MB at most.

2) If the disks are matched and you don't need more than 250 GB, consider
mirroring them (RAID 1) for redundancy.

3) If you decide to use all 500 GB, consider mounting the second disk as
/data or another generic mount point since /var doesn't tend to require a
ton of space on desktop systems.  You can always bind mount parts of it to
other locations later.

4) Using LVM makes these initial decisions easier since you can more easily
change allocations later, but adds complexity especially if you're not
familiar with it.

5) Swap... depends on your school of thought.  Historically, twice the RAM
typically worked.  On heavily loaded servers this may still hold true.
 However, a desktop system with 4 GB will probably not dig much into swap
space, so you could probably get away with considerably less... perhaps 4 GB
at most.

Just FYI, both partitioning and swap allocation are somewhat subjective
topics... so expect a bunch of different responses... or a flame war. :)

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Michael S. Mason <midnitemac at me.com>wrote:

> Ladies & Gents,
>
> I am wanting to know the best way to format my two (2) hard drives... I
> have two 250GB hard drives for use. What is the best way to accomplish
> this? I am thinking about the following listed below. Keep in mind that I
> have 4GB of RAM ** Also, this server will be used as a *Mail* (Only for
> myself), *Web*, and as a *light, **Virtualization server*. Lastly, should
> I be using LVM?
>
> *Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, with /etc4*
> *
> *
> */dev/sda1   *** **300MB's for /Boot*
> */dev/sda2** **8GB HD for /Swap*
> */dev/sda5** **The rest for / (root)*
> *
> *
> *Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, with /etc4*
> *
> *
> */dev/sdb **250GB's for /Var*
>
> Thank you all in advance!
>
> Michael
>
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