On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 3:19 AM, M.Lewis <ca...@cajuninc.com> wrote: > > I have a machine running Lenny with a 250GB IDE HD in it. The HD is on its > last legs giving S.M.A.R.T. errors. > > I have a question about how best to divide things up in the new setup. The > current 250GB IDE HD has two partitions on it: > > /dev/hda1 = linux (~80 MB) > /dev/hda2 = linux LVM (~249.92 GB) > > I'm thinking to replace this IDE drive with two SATA HDs. One as small as I > can get. Say 100GB or so and make that the boot drive. And a second HD say > 500GB or so and moving the LVM over to that. > > Would it be better to move the LVM to a larger SATA drive and migrate the > boot drive on to a new small IDE HD? I've even thought to set it up to boot > from a flash drive. Not sure that would be wise either.
Given the current size of HDs, dedicating a full one to /boot is a waste since 250MB will be amply sufficient. You should use either one HD to replicate your current system on a larger disk or two and set up mdadm to use RAID 1 array. At work, someone (probably a project manager who convinced the powers-that-be that we were "misallocating san resources") convinced management that we shouldn't slice up our Solaris boxes with the usual /, swap, /var, /usr, /opt, and /export/home. This decision carried over to our RHEL servers and I have followed suit in my private and moonlighting habits and I split up my disks into / and /home (and /boot if using mdadm and/or lvm). We have 1,000s of servers and get the occasional "root is over 90%" alert but it has been a mostly painless change. If you really want separate partitions for /usr and /var, check your current usage with "du -sh /usr; du -sh /var" and use those values plus a decent margin to set up a new layout. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/r2h6d4219cc1004111225l67be2f35w70e7f763fb9ad...@mail.gmail.com
