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[jestrada101]

What would be the recommened mount points to go on a Linux server?

/
/usr
/var
/home
/opt

Also, i know that in the past for SWAP, I would double what the RAM is. Is this still recommened? I have 4Gigs of RAM to play with?

Thanks!
JE

 

[franklin97355]

All of the points you mentioned would be needed in my opinion. What is this for? With 4gig yopu don't need to have that big a swap file. I think my last one was 100meg.

 

[jestrada101]

This will be for a machine running a database?

2x146G drives - RAID 1
3x146G drives - RAID 5

I just read via Redhat documentation that 2 SWAPS at 2 Gigs each should be setup to handle the 4Gig of RAM.

This is what I'm thinking.. any feedback welcome.

/ - 10G
/var - 10G
/usr - 10G
swap1 - 2G
swap2 - 2G
/home - 100G
/boot - 100M
/opt - 10G

My RAID 5 will be for all ORACLE data/indexes/rollback/etc...

Any feedback on this??

THANKS!
JE

 

[franklin97355]

I'd put more in /var and less in /home

 

[chipperMDW]

You might want a separate partition for /tmp, too, to keep people from using up tons of disk space on the root partition. It would also let you mount the root partition read-only, protecting against corrupting that partition. Alternately, you could just make /tmp a symlink to /var/tmp.

Also, if you're not sure how much space you'll need for each partition, you might want to look into using logical volume management (LVM).