[ale] VM guest partitioning practices

Chuck Payne terrorpup at gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 11:55:51 EST 2014


I my centos boxes, like this

/boot 1G -- /dev/sba1

The rest on lvm all are ext4, will change once I played with C7

/   5G
/opt  10G
/var  5G
/usr   5G
/home 10G
swap 16G
/usr/local 5 Gigs



On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

> I do the following:
>
> sda1 /boot (ext3, 1gb)
> sda2 swap appropriate size
> sda3 / xfs
> If it makes sense to do a separate /srv, /opt, etc...  I add a second
> virtual hard drive...so..
> sdb1 /srv, /opt, etc...
>
> I put all data directories under /srv (apache, tomcat, ftp, MySQL,
> MariaDB, etc...), and anything built from source goes under /opt, instead
> of /usr/local
>
> Btrfs throws all of this out the Window, though.
>
> If I do LVM, I still do /dev/sda1 as /boot
> Then, make the rest of the disk a physical volume, and create logical
> volumes inside for swap, /, etc...
>
> Allen B.
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> Allen Beddingfield
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> The University of Alabama
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> Subject: [ale] VM guest partitioning practices
>
> I've been asked to research how others layout their filesystems in virtual
> machines. I long ago decided it wasn't worth splitting stuff like /var off
> onto its own partition. I particularly don't think it's necessary in a
> virtual machine. But I need to get some other opinions before I can be
> validated in mine.
>
> So, how do you guys partition the filesystems in your virtual machines?
>
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