Disk Partition questions

[rgmhtt]

I selected the defaults in partitioning my drive and df -h shows:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
18G 2.5G 15G 15% /
/dev/hda1 99M 12M 82M 13% /boot
none 126M 0 126M 0% /dev/shm

Now I am getting ready to install Scalix CE and it is telling me a whole story about what my partitions should be. Note that I did the install with 256Mb memory, and I may upgrade to 512Mb.

/ (root) partition of 6Gb recommended.
/boot partition of 75Mb (that seems to be met)
/swap partition of x2 installed memory
/var partition of at least 10Gb (well that is based on a 100 users and 100mb and that is enough for me)

There is also the note:

Some versions of Linux include the Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Scalix Corporation recommends
using a LVM volume for the /var partition. This enables you to increase the size of the
/var partition and back up the Scalix Server without having to shut down the system.

So what do I do?

leave things alone
Use a partition manager (whcih?) to adjust and create partitions
Reinstall and select manual partitioning

[ScalixSupport]

Unfortunatly, you are far better off re-installing and then choosing manual partitioning with Disk Druid. Here's a blurb that will help you out.

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The optimum time to configure Logical Volume Manage is during the installation of Red Hat 3.0. There will be an option to choose either automatic partitioning or manual partitioning with Disk Druid. You will need to choose manual partition with Disk Druid, where the configuration of LVM can be made – by clicking on “New” button and entering the appropriate information.

Let’s assume there is 300 GB of direct attached storage available at the time Linux Red Hat 3.0 is installed. Setting up the new partitions based on the following table would be an optimum configuration for a dedicated Scalix server (one that is not serving other applications with storage requirements)

Example Disk Partition – 300GB storage, 4GB RAM
Mount Point Size File System Type
/boot 128MB Ext2
/ 50GB Ext3
n/a 240 GB Physical Volume (LVM)
/swap 8 GB n/a

Note, you want to check the “Force to be primary” option for the /boot partition. In this configuration the 240 GB that have been allocated for LVM, will not have an associated mount point yet, as this will not be established until further LVM configuration takes place. Ultimately the Scalix message store can grow up to 200 GB, with 40 GB available within the Volume Group for creating a snapshot.

Make sure you click on the LVM button, and then Add to bring up the Make Logical Volume screen. Set the Mount Point to /var/opt/scalix and set the size to 200GB. You can optionally change the Volume Group Name and Logical Volume Name. The Physical Extent will have to be raised on larger disks.
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Hope that helps.

Cheers,

ds

[rgmhtt]

Unfortunatly, you are far better off re-installing and then choosing manual partitioning with Disk Druid. Here's a blurb that will help you out.

ds

At this juncture, all I have done is set the system up as my DNS primary and downloaded Scalix CE and extracted the stuff.

So given my Un*x skill level (I had started working on Sun 386 Solaris in '93 stopped pretty quickly), I will take the reinstall approach. Better to get these things worked out now.

This will be a production box for a fairly small set of users. My 'business' (huh!), family, and two community organizations (one a non-profit org). So there will not be a lot of mail. Right now I support this on an old NT box running dmail from New Zealand!

I do run my own DNS primary. My ISP secondaries it, and I have another 'geographically diverse' secondary.

[rgmhtt]

Well I have rebulit the system. 1st time with druid or whatever that was called.

Took a bit to figure out what I wanted to do, but I am now running 3 partitions instead of the one default. I set up a 6Gb for / and a swap partition at the end of the disk at 1G for when I upgrade to 512mb memory. The rest is for LVM and so far 12Gb to /var/opt/scalix

No to find that magic tar command to open up the .gz and I can get going again. The command was part of the download, which I don't have to do again, but I can't find it.

[ScalixSupport]

Hi. One of the beauties of Unix/Linux systems is that man pages are always at your fingertips, so a "man tar" will have the answer for you. But not wanting to leave you hanging, the answer is:

tar xvzf scalix-x.y.z-community-intel-xx.tar.gz

Thanks,
Rachel