Machines are provided with 2x300 GB SAS hdd disks dedicated for the root system and 2x1.92GB SSD for the vms. I was looking for informations on how to partition the root and didn’t find a good answer. How do people? Is partionning them as a single / with an ext4 filesystem good? Is there any more efficient pattern for it? In the past I would have create a separate /var/log but i’m not sure now. On freebsd I would have just use zfs with different datasets … Any feedback is welcome.
Hi @benoitc, IMO, if this is a production machine, you should use Raid1 using 2x300GB SAS with just one ‘/’ partition enough. And use 2x1.92GB ssd for zfs mirror. I mean separate the host boot disk and the ssd ones. And add the apool storage to lxd.
Regards.
zfs create apool mirror </dev/ssd1> </dev/ssd2>
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This is not a production machine, this is my homelab machine, but I use this kind of partitioning :
nvme0n1 259:3 0 238.5G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:4 0 1G 0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2 259:5 0 1G 0 part /boot
└─nvme0n1p3 259:6 0 236.4G 0 part
├─system-root 253:0 0 20G 0 lvm /
├─system-logs 253:1 0 10G 0 lvm /var/log
├─system-snap 253:2 0 10G 0 lvm /var/lib/snapd
├─system-snap--var 253:3 0 10G 0 lvm /var/snap
└─system-swap 253:4 0 16G 0 lvm [SWAP]
All these LVM volumes are formatted using EXT4 (except the /boot/efi
one ofc). I usually like to separate everything, I use this scheme mostly in virtual machines, but I applied it on my bare-metal machine too. Regarding ZFS, I agree with @cemzafer, a ZFS mirror on your SSD should be fine.
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