RE: Partition Drive- Number of primary vs logical Ubuntu-

["Jack Coats-4" <user=26@nabble.blu.org>]

 I worked for a small company that uses Ubuntu for Asterisk phone system 
support. 
They typically used a 40G (now 80G - whatever is reliable and easily 
available and least expensive 
in the market, above 20G). 

Their standard partitioning is: 
  /boot 100M ext1 
  swap 2G (they liked 1G, but 2G made me more comfortable) 
  / half or remainder - ext2 
  /var remainder ... logs and phone call recordings can get big - ext2 

If there is another data drive available, 
  swap 2G (again this is me, just to distribute the load, set the 
priority to be 
                        either lower or the same as the boot disk swap. 
Equal will use round 
                        robin scheduling, lower will make this the primary 
swap partition. 
  /opt remainder ... ext2 ... if setting up a dirvish or backuppc server 
and putting the 
                backups here, I made it ext1.  the ext2 journals didn't save 
that much on IO. 
                The boss liked to call this /datadump instead, but that was 
just a personal thing. 

For highly available systems, we set up mirror of boot drive with hardware 
raid controller. 
Make sure the raid controller board has its own battery... Again, that goes 
to personal bias 
from being bit in the past. 

I hope this helps! 

-----Original Message----- 
From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of 
stephen goldman 
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 11:10 AM 
To: [hidden email] 
Subject: Partition Drive- Number of primary vs logical Ubuntu- 

Hello Blu, 
    I asked a question about partition a drive or taking the "guided 
partition. With better information in hand I decided to partition the disk. 

        What is the rule or recommendation as deciding what should be 
"primary and logical " drive space 

        I chose - 
        /boot         primary 
        /                 primary 
         Interested in thoughts of the remaining and why 

Thanks, 
Stephen 
        
        /etc 
        /var 
        /usr 



Stephen Goldman 
Systems Administrator 
MIT Biology 
617-452-2595 
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