So Christmas vacation I plan to rebuild my server with a new drive configuration. I will have an AMD 4000+ 64 bit proc at 2.4 GHz with 4 GB of ram in this box.

I will have a 40 GB IDE drive (primarily for storage and boot)
I have a 20 GB ID drive available to my disposal (I'm thinking about using this for swap, that's where my question is)

I will have 3x 500 GB SATA Drives in a Software RAID 5 Array

I will be using CentOS x64 version 5 for my host OS with VMware Server on top of it

My question is what would my recommended partitioning scheme be?

My initial thought was to put "/boot" on a 100 meg part on the 40 gig, a 6 GB swap partition on the 40 gig, and the rest of "/" on the 40 gig with "/home/vms" on the 1 TB RAID 5 for my VM's. and not use the 20 GB.

Then I thought maybe since I have a 20 gig laying around I should do "/boot" on a 100 meg part on the 20 gig, along with the 6 GB swap part ont he 20 gig. Install the rest of the system to / on the 40 gig and /home/vms on the raid 5.

I'm still unsure on what I should do for the partitioning scheme.

Any suggestions?

thanks.

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If your machine is actually going to use swap space, I'd stick it on the 500gb drives, which should be much quicker.
I'd also practice restoring / and /boot before going live, if they're only going to be on one drive.

Here are the vendor's recommendations (CentOS is based on RH).

The answer to your question depends a lot on what the server will be doing. Here is more good reading:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/hand...art=1#doc_chap2
http://www.lockergnome.com/chrisshort/2005...x-partitioning/
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/partitions.html