Re: [CentOS] SSD as system drive - partitioning question

2012-04-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Frank Cox wrote: > >> You want to create two partitions on the SSD and three on the HD. The SSD >> partitions should have the mount points /boot and /, while the HD partitions >> should have mount points /tmp, /var and /home. That's all there is to it, >> really. >

Re: [CentOS] SSD as system drive - partitioning question

2012-04-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:56:03 +0200 Marko Vojinovic wrote: > You want to create two partitions on the SSD and three on the HD. The SSD > partitions should have the mount points /boot and /, while the HD partitions > should have mount points /tmp, /var and /home. That's all there is to it, > real

Re: [CentOS] SSD as system drive - partitioning question

2012-04-17 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday, 17. April 2012. 17.40.32 Frank Cox wrote: > My plan is to have everything that doesn't change (much) on the SSD, such > as /boot, /lib, /bin and so on. I want to put /tmp and /var and /home on > the regular hard drive. > > Now that I'm at the stage of actually setting this up I have d

Re: [CentOS] SSD as system drive - partitioning question

2012-04-17 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/17/2012 06:40 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > I mentioned here the other day that I was planning to set up a Centos 6 system > using a SSD for the system drive and a regular hard drive for a data drive. > > My plan is to have everything that doesn't change (much) on the SSD, such > as /boot, /lib, /bi

Re: [CentOS] SSD as system drive - partitioning question

2012-04-17 Thread Al Sparks
Well, /boot by default, is always a primary partition. CentOS (and RedHat) like to create a logical volume manager (LVM) on a separate primary partition, and typically inside the LVM one can create and modify the rest of the various partitions. You do have the flexibility to create TWO LVM's.