ideal /root size?

albie17 · 12-18-2010, 01:06 AM

Hi,
Our company just acquired recently a new IBM x3650 M3 with 6*300gb SAS with 16gb ram. I would like to know if what is the best size for /root directory?

Here's my initial design, all drives will be set to:
RAID 1:
/boot - 500MB
RAID 5 + LVM:
swap - 4096MB
/root - No idea how big should this be.
/var - The rest of all space since it will be used for storing web pages (/var/www/html) and database (/var/lib/mysql)

Best Regards

acid_kewpie · 12-18-2010, 01:28 AM

You wouldn't normally have a dedicated /root partition at all, do you mean / ? If so then there is never a best, with 300gb to use, I'd say 10gb if you just want someone to tell you an arbitrary number. /boot never needs anything like as much space either.

John VV · 12-18-2010, 03:32 AM

on a server running RHEL/CentOS 10 gig for / should be more than enough

now on if the whole thing is running in LVM let the rhel 5.5 or rhel 6 installed set it .

and for a server i would use LVM . For home use lvm is a bit more of a hassle than it is worth

for /root well 100 meg to 1 gig seeing as all it needs is some config files for bash

or better yet don't make a /root partition use /

albie17 · 12-18-2010, 04:01 AM

Sorry guys. Well i mean root as this (/).