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The following table indicates a "standard" suggested disk partitioning for centos5.
This is a work-in-progress!
centos7 with a 1 TB SSD. (Note: the machine, comet2, has 16 GB of RAM.)
Currently recommended partition sizes are in blue.
| Partition | Type | Size (GB) | Red Hat guideline | encrypt? | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| /boot | ext4 | 2 | >1 GB | ||
| / | ext4 | 30 | >10 GB | root | |
| /home | ext4 | 30 | >1 GB | local user $HOMEs | |
| swap | 8 | >1 GB | calculation based on amount of RAM | ||
| /opt | ext4 | 40 | 3rd party software | ||
| /tmp | ext4 | 10 | don't let this fill up! | ||
| /var | ext4 | 10 | logs | ||
| /scratch | ext4 | 300 | yum! | ||
| /scswork | ext4 | 10 | maybe combine with / ? | ||
| /usr/vice/cache | ext4 | 5 | AFS/YFS only | ||
| /afs | auristorfs | --- | empty mount point (AFS/YFS only) | ||
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