building a new box - seperate disk for tmp?

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#1

Hi, I’m building a new box at home and have decide to go all out. I’m looking at having a multi-drive setup for optimal performance. Would having a separate drive dedicated to swap buy me much? I’ll probably do a RAID1 for /home and dedicated drive for /, but I don’t know if it’s worth it to have a dedicated drive for the swap partition.

What’s the “Optimal” drive configuration for a workstation? BTW - I’ll be using SATA 3.0 drives.

#2

jeebustrain wrote:

>
> Hi, I’m building a new box at home and have decide to go all out. I’m
> looking at having a multi-drive setup for optimal performance. Would
> having a separate drive dedicated to swap buy me much? I’ll probably do
> a RAID1 for /home and dedicated drive for /, but I don’t know if it’s
> worth it to have a dedicated drive for the swap partition.
>
> What’s the “Optimal” drive configuration for a workstation? BTW - I’ll
> be using SATA 3.0 drives.
>
>
no on the swap - how often does /swap even get accessed? and if it does than
add ram as it’s pretty cheap. How about a small raptor (36gb) for /

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#3

that makes sense… It’d be nice to get a nice SSD drive for /, but I probably couldn’t justify that kind of cash.

thanks!

#4

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:46:04 GMT
jeebustrain <jeebustrain@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
> Hi, I’m building a new box at home and have decide to go all out. I’m
> looking at having a multi-drive setup for optimal performance. Would
> having a separate drive dedicated to swap buy me much? I’ll probably
> do a RAID1 for /home and dedicated drive for /, but I don’t know if
> it’s worth it to have a dedicated drive for the swap partition.
>
> What’s the “Optimal” drive configuration for a workstation? BTW - I’ll
> be using SATA 3.0 drives.
>
>
Hi
I’ve used this in the past as a starting point;
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Multi-Disk-HOWTO.html

I did run a setup as follows;
SDA - 36GB Raptor
1 = 2.0GB swap <set to secondary>
2 = 502MB /boot
3 = 5.0GB /
4 = extended
5 = 1.9GB /var/spool
6 = 25.0GB /usr

SDB - 36GB Raptor
1 = 2.0GB swap <set to primary>
2 = 502MB /spare_boot <set to not mount at boot and use dd to
backup sda2 partition>
3 = 10.0GB /tmp
4 = extended
5 = 3.9GB /var
6 = 18.0GB /opt

SDC/SDD 250GB setup as software RAID1
1 = /home

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