Suggestions please

[Lance Haig]

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Hi Matt,

Thanks for the detailed setup I will read through this with interest.

i just need to twork out software raid now

Lance

Matt Kettler wrote:
>Lance Haig wrote:
>  
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have tried now for two days to get my SATA raid card to work with my
>>new server but I have decided that it is to much effort to find drivers
>>for it.
>>
>>I now have 2 80 gig SATA drives for my new MS server and was wondering
>>wat you guys would suggest as the ideal way to partition my system
>>
>>I normaly create a 500MB boot with EXT2 and then the rest is set to /
>>
>>I am open to suggestions.
>>    
>
>I'd suggest having a separate /var partition. This way if /var/spool/* or
>/var/log/* fills up, you are not completely out of disk on all parts of the
>filesystem. Conversely, if a large download to your home dir takes up a lot of
>disk space, your mail queues can keep running without a hitch.
>
>I usually make separate /boot, /var, /home, /usr and /tmp partitions, in
>addition to /.  This might be more than you'd want for your needs, but a
>separate /var and /tmp can both be useful.
>
>If your box is devoted to mailscanner you might even consider making a separate
>/var/spool too.
>
>Here's my current layup on a mailscanner/dns box. It's not optimal, but it works:
>
>Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>/dev/sda6              7060276    892608   5809020  14% /
>/dev/sda1               101089     13293     82577  14% /boot
>/dev/sda5              5036284     41340   4739112   1% /chroot
>/dev/sda7              4538124    501900   3805696  12% /home
>/dev/sda8              1510032     32980   1400344   3% /tmp
>/dev/sda2             10080520   1375392   8193060  15% /usr
>/dev/sda3              9068648    525800   8082188   7% /var
>
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