On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:12:42PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote > Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes becomes blurry, the room > starts spinning, and I can hear wolves howling ... :D > > Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and is!) mighty complex. > > So, I want to start from something simple. > > Aaaanyways, after reviewing my production boxes, I decided to > implement the following strategy: > > / == 800 MiB > /boot == 20 MiB > /usr == 1800 MiB > /usr/portage == 2000 MiB > /var == 4000 MiB > /var/lib/postgresql == 1000 MiB > > Comments, suggestions, are welcome :)
I have my own weird approach that's even weirder than my mdev setup<G>. I start with... * 250 megabytes for / as ext2fs (No that is not a typo) * 4 gigs for swap * the rest of the drive is /home as one huge reiserfs partition And I do *NOT* use LVM. "fdisk -l" shows... Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 2048 976773167 488385560 5 Extended /dev/sda5 4096 516095 256000 83 Linux /dev/sda6 518144 8906751 4194304 83 Linux /dev/sda7 8908800 976773167 483932184 83 Linux "df" shows Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 247919 29315 205804 13% / /dev/root 247919 29315 205804 13% / devtmpfs 10240 0 10240 0% /dev rc-svcdir 1024 44 980 5% /lib/rc/init.d mdev 10240 0 10240 0% /dev shm 1551308 0 1551308 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda7 483917384 251951296 231966088 53% /home The secret is that I bindmount /opt, /var, /usr, and /tmp onto the large reiserfs partition. ############################################################################## /dev/sda5 / ext2 noatime,nodiratime,async 0 1 /dev/sda7 /home reiserfs noatime,nodiratime,async,notail 0 1 /home/bindmounts/opt /opt auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/var /var auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/usr /usr auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/tmp /tmp auto bind 0 0 /dev/sda6 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 auto noauto,user,ro 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/extb auto noauto,user,noatime,async 0 0 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/extc auto noauto,user,noatime,async 0 0 # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will # use almost no memory if not populated with files) shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 ############################################################################## -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
