Best partitioning?

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 02:40 -0400, Deron Meranda wrote:
> On 5/25/05, Gerald Thompson <geraldlt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Now some people will say that you can put / into the LVM group too, I
> > tried this and I was unable to make my system bootable with / in the LVM
> > group.  This may change in FC4, ...
> 
> I've been putting / in LVM at least since FC2, on many different
> types of machines (intel); and I've never had problems.  The only
> time I had any sort of issue was using a high-end expensive hardware
> RAID (SCSI) disk array; but that was just because it picked the
> wrong SCSI driver at first (and that wasn't LVM's fault).
> 
> I'd still try putting / in LVM.  Only if for whatever reason you are
> not able to get it to work would I put it in a regular partition.
> Use LVM whenever possible, it will make your life so much
> easier.

I've never had a problem with / on LVM either, and that's a *lot* of
installs.

The default configuration on Fedora puts that data served by the web
server on the /var partition rather than /srv, so if the OP intends to
stick as closely as possible to "standard" settings, the size of
the /var partition should take this into account.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>