Ubuntu Preseed Raid 1 with multiple partitions

[Camilo Vieira]

Hi Liam,

Thanks for your collaboration.

This is a server machine. I usually use the /boot to help me fix partitions
issues when something wrong happens.
The applications will be installed on /opt and I want to separate the
partitions to avoid space problems.



2013/6/3 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>

> 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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