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iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Partitioning schemes for Arch64 setups

I'm looking at different schemes for partitioning my newest Arch64 install (I've got 4 physical discs to play with) and I'm looking for the most efficient way to partition without making it hard to manage. In the past I've had a separate partition for each of  /, /usr, /opt, and /var. I, of course, mounted /usr, /opt nodev, blah, blah as has been traditional for unix setups but I'm starting to question the need for that level of detail in partitioning the setup. Does having a huge / partition make you any more soft a target in our current world. Target disc is 80GB in size. Also, /home is always on another, much larger disc.

Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

Posts: 5,914

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Re: Partitioning schemes for Arch64 setups

I run /  /home /media [its own disc] ... swap of course

you thought about running raid5 ?

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AndyRTR

Developer

From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: Partitioning schemes for Arch64 setups

my partitions always look like this:

/swap
/
/home

but what has it to do with arch64? you should get more answers in "installation" section.

ndlarsen

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2005-11-02

Posts: 157

Re: Partitioning schemes for Arch64 setups

You could have a go with LVM, should make it easier to fiddle with partitioning schemas, then. Other than that I use a /, /home setup. Think it is only really important how you configure your discs if you are running a publicly accessible server.

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