Does this seem okay for partititioning suse 9.3 for a server, 2 hard drives, drive 1 189.9GB, DRIVE 2 115.0GB

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/dev/hda 189.9GB-- Type 6B200R0 -- Start 0 - end 24791
/dev/hda1 1.0GB -- Type F Linux Swap -- Mount Swap Start 0 - end 130
/dev/hda2 188.96GB F Linux Native (Reiser) / -- Start 131 - End 24791


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/dev/hdb 115.0GB --Type HDS722512V6AT20 Start 0 - End 15016
/dev/hdb1 1.0GB -- Linux Swap -- Mount Swap Start 0 End 130
/dev/hdb2 111.0GB --Type Linux Native Start 131 - End 14622


Can anyone see any changes that I should make to this, or leave it alone.

This is for a server that Im setting up with SUSE 9.3 this morning.

Thanks,

Hello!

1. You should setup a partiton for /boot.
2. I prefer using xfs as filesystem
3. /dev/hdb2 has no mountpoint; i would use it as /home

you should give more for the swap partition remember that never is enough maybe 512 or 1 Gb more

Wow! Are you sure you have enough space there ???

Seriously though however you set it up it's up too you. Personally I'm not an enthusiast per se, but having followed a slightly modified version of gentoos recommend, it's worked fine.

Their basic system is /boot, /swap and /, but I have maintained a seperate /home for a good while now - in the hope that I won't loose my customisations, data, address books, etc etc.

Looking at your post kuplo are you going too run 1 or 2 distros? because it's showing 2 /swap partitions between the 2 drives. If you're gonna run 2 distros then it's probably less hassle to have a common /swap and /boot. You can also have a common /home as it's only really the need for seperate / partitions so that each distro has it's only location.

Oh and when I installed SuSE 9.3 over the top of the mandriva 2005LE I did experience some problems with my /home - I never did find out why, but the SuSE seemed to want to do it's own thing (and yes, I might have got it wrong). It wouldn't let me into the original /home.

After a couple of weeks of meddling I just reverted to gentoo as I know I could make it work without much in the way of problems.


'Sup to you really but the above are the only things that made me think a little.

Good luck

regards

John

Because many drives geometry extends beyond the normal bootable range, the first partition on the drive should nearly always be /boot.

After that, the order or sequence is up to you.

Having been a Solaris admin for years and years, I've followed a fairly standard partition table for the root disk.

/boot - 128MB
/swap - At least 1x (up to 2X) RAM if it's 512MB or higher, or 2xRAM if it's lower than 512MB
/root - the remainder of the disk used to boot with.

After that, the 2nd drive can be partitioned and used during install, or after the installation is done.

If I have more than 1 drive of the same specs, I'll use LVM to mirror the 2 drives, and then get more for additional data storage.

My current *play* rig for Linux consists of 2x200GB SATA drives, hardware mirrored, and 2x120GB PATA drives, hardware mirrored.

I boot off of the PATA drives, and run my databases, games, VMWare sessions off of the SATA drive array.


HTH,

Nawar