Preparing/partitioning a server for use as dev box

[DKing0]

I have a pc that has 500GB of hard disk space, I want to install centos and use it has a dev box for java/web applications. Keeping in mind the end us of the box, what partition structure makes the most sense?

I was thinking:

/ -- 150 GB*
/var -- 10 GB
/data -- 340 GB**

*Since there will be a bunch of apps i.e. apache, mysql, vsftpd, postfix, trac, samba, alfresco, and icescrum or agilefant

**For all other files i.e. java/war/jar files, svn directory, backups, samba share

Thanks.

[coopstah13]

I don't see a need for a separate /var

usually I do only / and /home

150gb is overkill for / even with home being in it, if you are putting data elsewhere

[DKing0]

I don't see a need for a separate /var

usually I do only / and /home

150gb is overkill for / even with home being in it, if you are putting data elsewhere

How much would you recommend for the "/" volume? I thought of using 150 GB to account for all the patches/updates to the aforementioned softwares.

Thanks.

[coopstah13]

20-30gb should be more than sufficient, my / partition is 10gb, still under 80% utilization

[DKing0]

20-30gb should be more than sufficient, my / partition is 10gb, still under 80% utilization

Thanks for the input; I think I'll go with 30GB for the / partition and the remaining disk space I'll use for the data volume group.

However, I have one follow-up question -- what physical extent size makes the most the sense for the data volume group?

[coopstah13]

if you are only single booting, or using virtualization software, then probably use the rest of the space for data, make sure you have enough swap thought

[Rubberman]

I am running CentOS 5 for a server and dev box. After 2 years and TONNES of software added to the system, my root file system is only taking 25GB, so I think 50GB to / is fine. BTW, /var is also on the root file system, so 50GB for both should be just fine. Use the rest for /home or whatever. My system drive is 320GB which contains /, /boot, and swap. I am using a 4x500GB set of discs configured as a 2TB LVM2 volume that contains /home - all my downloads, user files, installed software packages, databases, source, etc.