partition

[THUFIR]

Is this a sane partitioning scheme for testing vicibox?

thufir@doge:~$
thufir@doge:~$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA ST500DM002-1BD14 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 105GB 105GB primary ext4 boot
2 105GB 498GB 393GB primary ext4
3 498GB 500GB 2348MB primary linux-swap(v1)


thufir@doge:~$
thufir@doge:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x1f3b4b3e

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 204802047 204800000 97.7G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 204802048 972187647 767385600 365.9G 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 972187648 976773119 4585472 2.2G 82 Linux swap / Solaris

thufir@doge:~$


I'll be install vicibox 6 preload onto sda3.

[DomeDan]

I'll be install vicibox 6 preload onto sda3.

No you aint, sda3 is the swap on your disk
I personally prefer /boot in the same partition as root.
my /boot uses 41Mb diskspace so if you wont be installing hundreds of different kernels then you will have almost 105Gb diskspace that wont be used.
the swap partition is ok because hopefully the server wont need to swap that much,

[Kumba]

I'd just use 4GB for swap and the rest of the hard drive as root. There's not much of a reason to separate anything unless you are using weird RAID arrays or your hard drives are too small.

[THUFIR]

thanks for the input.