Hi,

I'm installing Centos 4.4 for use as an email server using postfix and apache. First install didn't go well, couldn't see any directories as root even though I could access some random ones etc etc.... saw some writings about not putting the root partion in the LVM2 which was done with the automatic partitioning, so I'm manually setting the partitions and I'd like some help setting them.

proposed setup on an 80 gig hd, 1gb RAM

/boot 150mb
/swap 2gb
/(root) 5gb
LVM
/usr 5gb
/home 1gb
/tmp 50mb
/opt 500mb
/var 10gb

I can resize the LVM dirs later, but I'm wondering if this looks ok to anyone else?

Any help/advice much appreciated as I'm a relative newbie and don't know LVM much.

i would suggest it's a little OTT... how do you benefit from a seperate /opt? /tmp i'd make larger, at least 250mb, and /home... well if it's a dedicated server then /home will contain nothing, so why allocate space to it? personally i have no issues with swap and / in lvm2 partitions.

not that resizing LVM isn't quite as easy as you'd think. changing the logical volumes in itself is easy, but you still then have the internal filesystems to do seperatley.

when you are building a system for a tailored purpose then the partitions you may want would change a lot. if you have an intensive database, maybe you'd want /var/psql on it's own partition, one another drive potentially, and as for apache, then you'd have that seperately too if you want to go in that direction. but for /var in total, i wouldn't see a benefit in that *IF* you split the two main apps onto their own partitions anyway.

Thanks, I appreciate the input. This is a bit of a learning experience so I've changed the partition sizes along your recommendations and I'll see how it pans out and then maybe start again with a fresh install later.