Linux Partioning Question

[xorion]

Hi experts,

Bought a new IBM x3250 server with 4TB (RAID 1) hard drive, going to install CentOS (latest) with this.

I'm planning to use it as a web and email server, installing DirectAdmin and php applications, it will have over 200 users on it. Each user has 2GB of data.

For the partitioning, how should I partition my HDD? I usually allow auto allocation.

Please advise.

 

[davidktw]

Hi experts,

Bought a new IBM x3250 server with 4TB (RAID 1) hard drive, going to install CentOS (latest) with this.

I'm planning to use it as a web and email server, installing DirectAdmin and php applications, it will have over 200 users on it. Each user has 2GB of data.

For the partitioning, how should I partition my HDD? I usually allow auto allocation.

Please advise.

Nowadays for Linux environment, there is no need to explicitly partition your hard disk, since there is quota features to restrict the amount of diskspace allocated to each process or user. There is also Logical Volume Manager(LVM) to better manage your block disk allocations.

Use LVM to segregate your volumes, having /(root) under one volume, /var under another volume, /tmp one volume, and /boot another is required by the raid setup. Swap can be another volume too.

You will appreciate later towards operational on disk management, since you can just expand any of the volumes using another set of physical volume formed using another set of block disk or block array.

Using LVM will have slight performance degrade, but the benefits of easier and better storage management outweigh the small little degradation of performance.