Partition / FS structure

agent_paul · 26 Mar 2009 at 12:50

Hi guys,

I'm planning on reinstalling ubuntu on my server (which is going to be used for a variety of things but mainly as a file/web server) and was thinking about the partitioning/structure of the Hard drives.

i was thinking of setting it up as below and was wondering if it would create any issues.

HD1 2TB drive

partition 1 30Gigs for OS mounted on / ext3
partition 2 1-2Gigs swap
partition 3 rest of HD mounted on /home ext3

HD2 1TB drive

partition 1 whole drive mounted on /home/backup

does this format look ok? would i get any issues if i were to change distro etc?

any advice welcome

agent_paul · 26 Mar 2009 at 13:36

Thanks for your reply Billy,

how would you suggest adding redundancy? are we talking about some sort of raid solution or some backup facility?

thanks

agent_paul · 26 Mar 2009 at 15:46

thanks Billy.

i think ill stick to a script that backs stuff up on my other drive. ive spent too much already on this machine and i'm trying to keep power consumption/noise down

thanks

agent_paul · 26 Mar 2009 at 16:26

Hi Dj_Jestar,

i had a look into ReiserFS about a year or 2 ago and concluded it might not be a stable/supported fs (maybe because all that news about the creator killing off his wife etc... or have i got it confused with another fs?). but obviously things change and it might be worth going back to have a look.

thanks

agent_paul · 26 Mar 2009 at 19:43

hmmm all these choices just makes it more confusing. i think ill stick to ext3 for now but in the mean time look into xfs, lvm and probably ext4

thanks guys!

agent_paul · 27 Mar 2009 at 09:15

thanks for the advice guys.

i went ahead and reinstalled the OS but not in time to read about changing the mount points to /media/mountpoint. i know ubuntu usually recommends that but i thought mounting everything else on /home was sufficient.

anyways, its all done now and im happy with it. just need to go about installing all my apps!

cheers

agent_paul · 27 Mar 2009 at 09:17

ive considered ext4 but i believe its not supported out of the box (for ubuntu that is) yet. theres also some other fs (brtfs or something like that) i looked at too but thats some way off isnt it.