Re: [PLUG] hard disk partitioning

[Ronald Mansolino <rmsolino@netaxs.com>]

> On 8/30/05, Rodney Oliver <roliver3@comcast.net> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Is it possible to create a RAID 1 array using two drives then LVM those
> > drives?  If so where can I find some good documentation with example
> > partitioning schemes?
> 
> Assuming you mean using Liinux software raid, sure, you can do that.
> 
> When you create your LVM volume, instead of using a physical
> partition, like say /dev/hda2, you'll just reference an md device,
> like say /dev/md0.
> 
> While it may be technically possible to raid your /boot, I'd recommend
> you save the headaches and not bother with it.  Same for swap, don't
> use a raid for swap.
> 
> If you're really serious about building it out "the right way", go
> with a single drive that will house /boot and swap space, smallish,
> like 2-4 gb.  Add to that a hardware raid adapter and the drives.  You
> can use LVM on the RAID volume.  Most distros seem to just make 3
> partitions these days, /boot, / and swap.  There are plenty of reasons
> to splinter the filesystem further, such as keeping /var and / apart
> from /home so that user activity won't crash the box if they run their
> filesystem out of space.

what about /etc ?
where/when does the stuff there come into play?
what's a sensible strategy for a 3-disk (plus cdrom) ide chain?
I sorta decided on 

/ and everything but
/usr
/home 

and is it sensible to have swap on all 3 drives (close to the spindle?)
BSD seems to divide the swap usage equally amongst all swap partitions, 
does linux do something similar?

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