03-02-2013
How to partition your disk?
Hello,
I am a new member of the forum.
I need an idea on how to partition the disk.
My situation is as follows:
I have two 3TB disks ognuno.In 6TB total then, but I have to do to force a RAID 1 so my space will be 3TB. I'll have to force install RedHat 5.8 and liquids is to be taken in considering that the GPT is not supportato.Sulla machine will have to work just a single heavy application whose purpose is to collect and store the data in a DB2. The server machine has sufficient processing resources to allow the application to work well. My request for help is how do I partition the disk for this scenario? Whereas GPT is not supported I'm forced to create a boot partition less than 2TB. My idea is to create a partition of 500GB with 64GB of swap (this is a specific request of the application that asks me over 32GB of RAM should I expect 1GB of swap for each of RAM), the remaining 2.5 TB them memorizzari use DB2 for the data in the database.
And as a good idea? As you would do?
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FDISK(8) System Manager's Manual FDISK(8)
NAME
fdisk - partition a hard disk [IBM]
SYNOPSIS
fdisk [-hm] [-sn] [file]
OPTIONS
-h Number of disk heads is m
-s Number of sectors per track is n
EXAMPLES
fdisk /dev/hd0 # Examine disk partitions
fdisk -h9 /dev/hd0 # Examine disk with 9 heads
DESCRIPTION
When fdisk starts up, it reads in the partition table and displays it. It then presents a menu to allow the user to modify partitions,
store the partition table on a file, or load it from a file. Partitions can be marked as MINIX, DOS or other, as well as active or not.
Using fdisk is self-explanatory. However, be aware that repartitioning a disk will cause information on it to be lost. Rebooting the sys-
tem immediately is mandatory after changing partition sizes and parameters. MINIX, XENIX, PC-IX, and MS-DOS all have different partition
numbering schemes. Thus when using multiple systems on the same disk, be careful.
Note that MINIX, unlike MS-DOS , cannot access the last sector in a partition with an odd number of sectors. The reason that odd partition
sizes do not cause a problem with MS-DOS is that MS-DOS allocates disk space in units of 512-byte sectors, whereas MINIX uses 1K blocks.
Fdisk has a variety of other features that can be seen by typing h.
Fdisk normally knows the geometry of the device by asking the driver. You can use the -h and -s options to override the numbers found.
SEE ALSO
part(8).
FDISK(8)