Linux distro on Dell PowerEdge R300

[Jean-Marc Pigeon]

On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 19:33 +0200, Bogdan Stoica wrote:
> Thank you very much. For a mail server wouldn't it be good to have a 
> /var partition? and also a /home partition for user accounts?
	My way is to symlink /work/var/xxx to /var/xxx
	such I can keep production meaningful data
	in case I migrate to another release/distro.

	A special /boot partition is needed because of
	booting restriction (RAID-1) in case you are using
	software RAID (you can't boot from RAID-5) 
	As you have only two disk RAID-5 is not a real option to you.
	I try to keep the same structure on all our
	systems, so even with a RAID1 system I am keeping
	the same structure.

	My 3 cents.. :-}
> 
> Jean-Marc Pigeon wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 18:20 +0200, Bogdan Stoica wrote:
> >   
> >> Hello people. I just bought a Dell PowerEdge R300 and I want to install 
> >> a linux server on it. I was thinking at installing Slackware 12.2
> >> I will have Apache, proftpd, bind9, mysql, and postfix and a file server 
> >> probably. Wich is the most recomended distro for this, and what is the 
> >> best partition setup? 4 GB RAM and 2x750 GB SATA hard drives. Thank you.
> >>
> >>     
> > 	I have the same R300 in production but with Centos-5.2
> >
> > 	my partitionning is
> > 	sda1	100M		/boot
> > 	sda2	100M		/res/boot
> > 	sda3	8G		swap
> > 	sda5	15G		/
> > 	sda6	15G		/res
> > 	sda7	remaining	/work
> >
> > 	The purpose of /res is to be able to install
> > 	another distro while keeping current
> > 	available in case of trouble.
> > 	(this partitionning is with raid-5 in mind,
> > 	  but I still use it on raid-1).
> >
> > 	My 2 cents..
> >
> >   
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