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Partitioning strategies for install

I'm trying to figure out the best solution/strategy for partioning my server for Red Hat Linux 9.0 install. I have three hard (40gig each) drives set up for RAID 5 and I want to install RedHat Linux 9.0. I will be running Apache2 webserver, Jboss application server, mySQL database, CVS (Concurrent Versioning System) for Software Developers. First off can I partition this set up (3 drives + Raid 5)? Second, how should I partition my drives? i.e. / ~1gb, /var ~ 1gb, /boot ~ 512mb, /home, /usr etc...

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troopern

I would make /var larger than 1GB . since the Database will be created here, also the maildirs might be in /var/mail/
Example:
/ = 3GB
/boot = 100MB (max 100MB, not much will be used in /boot)
/usr = 5GB
/var = 5+GB (logs, databases, maildirs and probably even your directory root, so make it quite large, larger than you think is nessescary, or just create partitions for /var/log /var/www etc, that has according to your needs enough space)
/home = 5-10GB (depending on how many users and how much space you are willing to let users use.)

This is what I've would have started with, then I would start applying more diskspace to varios partitions after I've drawn a sketch of what services will be needed and how much space all of them will be using, approximately.

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ahoffmann

I'd go more with jlevie's suggestion
take care where you install software: /usr/, /usr/local, /opt
configure your software/application so that their data resides in non-standard directories (better /opt and /home than /var or /usr/local)
this save headaches when re-installing or upgrading
If security is not an issue, use a large / and no /var and /usr partition
If security counts, use own partitions for / /var /usr and /tmp

troopern

I agree, jlevie's suggestion is far better than mine.