Post #34,242
4/3/02 3:25:01 AM
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Re: Anyone know anything about partitioning Sun boxes?
That partitioning FAQ is [link|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html|here] (now if I can just sell them on it at work....).
I haven't messed with Sun boxes much. So...one solution would be to put Linux on it and treat it as a Linux system ;-)
Seriously -- the guidelines I give should be reasonably workable. The big delta for Solaris is that /tmp is generally mounted as swap (or vice versa). Otherwise, sizing as I give it should be roughly respectable for Solaris.
My preference in general: /, /tmp (or swapfs), /var, /usr, /usr/local, and, for everything else, /home.
A lot of shops like to throw additional data under some other mount point. Frankly, I'd as soon create these as "virtual users" under /home (actually real users, which are the project owners, with other means for sharing data, eg: CVS, RCS, or means appropriate to the task. If you've got a slew of users, subpartition out /home according to a decent hashing scheme (eg: /home/a/, /home/b/, /home/c/, ...). For large storage, striping and/or RAID for performance and redundancy, mounted to a single point, is my preference.
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Karsten M. Self [link|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com|kmself@ix.netcom.com]
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What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.
[link|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html|[link|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]
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Post #34,244
4/3/02 5:47:22 AM
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I don't think I have that much control
And I worded the queston badly, to boot. *And* as I found out later today it's an irrelevant question anyway.
What I was talking about was partitioning the whole machine - into like Dev and Prod, where Dev might get 1 CPU and Prod might get 3, etc, etc.
Anyway, I found out this arvo that it's an E250, which is an 'entry level' kinda thing that cannot be partitioned in such a way. So I only look like a bit of an idiot, not a lot. I think. Of course, I cold have just blamed it all on the guy who told me to partition the box, but that won't achieve anything.
So. Thanks for yor replies anyway - the disk partitioning stuff could wel come in handy if I get to play with the box that much - a prospet about as scary as it is cool :)
On and on and on and on,
and on and on and on goes John.
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Post #34,252
4/3/02 9:28:50 AM
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Partitioning Sun Boxes
Usually means partitioning the hard drives which should be in IMHO
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swap mounted on /tmp
/local *for all the gpl tools that love to go here
/opt *for all the expensive apps
/var *cause all yer logging usually clogs this partition
and the first thing I get rid of is /export/home, stupid sun network idea
sizes on each part vary by application and of course dont forget the
/oracle part if needed. and the multitude of oracle partitions it needs.
thanx,
Bill
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Post #34,336
4/3/02 7:05:38 PM
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So maybe I do need to partition disks after all
<whinge>
Why must it be so difficult to get proper answers out of people? </whinge>
Anyway, if it ends up I do have to do this, I now have some good suggestions on what to do, so thanks in advance! :)
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Post #34,341
4/3/02 7:31:20 PM
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reasoning behind that layout
is that with all the 3rd party apps on a different partition than the OS partition, root,usr you can reload the OS and still have all the other stuff there so you dont need a complete restore from tape. Also I like to create a /local/dskchg directory where I store copies of the /etc/passwd /etc/shadow ifconfig output and any other configerable parameters so you dont have to reload all that crap by hand
thanx,
bill
TAM ARIS QUAM ARMIPOTENS
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Post #34,344
4/3/02 7:50:28 PM
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Very sound reasoning - I should apply it to my iBook...
On and on and on and on,
and on and on and on goes John.
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Post #34,253
4/3/02 9:30:19 AM
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Partitioning the cpu's
Can currently be done on an FT1800 in Hardware and clustering software to do the others.
thanx,
bill
TAM ARIS QUAM ARMIPOTENS
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Post #34,388
4/4/02 9:40:46 AM
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Don't forget /opt
A lot of software likes to install itself by default there. However, per Karsten's docs (I think I remember this) you can just create a link from /usr/local.
Tom Sinclair
"Subverting Young Minds Since 03/13/2000"
Daggy stepped forward, but only comparatively; in fact, his mates had all,
without discussion, taken one step backwards in the choreography of
caution.
-- (Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent)
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Post #34,393
4/4/02 10:04:33 AM
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/opt *for all the expensive apps (its there)
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Post #34,412
4/4/02 1:55:20 PM
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Linking /opt
I've got two general thoughts on that. One is what I recommend in the partitioning howto -- ln -s /usr/local /opt. The other is to create a subdirectory /usr/local/opt and link it instead, as the top-level /usr/local directory otherwise can get somewhat polluted. This is mostly a question of asthetics.
I generally vote against dedicating a partition to /opt -- there's a point at which you've chopped things up too much, you're better allocating the space to local and divving it up among well behaved local stuff whether it's in /opt or /usr/local.
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Karsten M. Self [link|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com|kmself@ix.netcom.com]
[link|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/|[link|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]]
What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.
[link|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html|[link|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]
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Post #34,414
4/4/02 2:00:45 PM
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On a solaris box depending on the outfit
might have a lot of off the shelf stuff that wants /opt, if you want to do anything useful with GPL it generally wants /usr/local. In the case og a PHB who just discovered that half the business runs on GPL and he just read an article about gates claiming it is evil, demands that all non purchased tools be removed now. I have seen it happen. Just unmount the partition and wait for a climate change.
thanx,
bill
TAM ARIS QUAM ARMIPOTENS
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