Installing 3.5 on Dell PE2950 III (Utility Partition)?

[hutchingsp]

As subject I'm installing 3.5 on a pair of brand new Dell PE2950 III's.

Dell's come with a utility partition with things like diagnostics, and it seems best to keep this, so I've gone as per the guide at:

Which recommends manual partitioning and the sizes to set. I note they recommend you set the root partition to at least 10gb.

As these servers have a pair of drives in RAID1 solely to boot/ run ESX from and VM's will be on a SAN, I took the 10gb minimum to be just that, and set it to 20gb.

All the other numbers are as per the table 1-5 in the Dell guide - before it's too late (I can easily start again right now) is there any reason to change these values?

[infinitiguy]

This is what I've done(on my HP's) but plan on doing the same on my dell's..

The only reason mine is 20GB used is because of /vmimages.. I have a bunch of iso's there. If you're using a SAN for your VMFS... just throw everything at root and split off /var and /opt to smaller sizes so they can be contained..

I like having it all in / because then I can use vmimages as the rest of my disk and not really have to worry about how "big" my / is

# vdf -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/cciss/c0d0p6 124G 20G 97G 18% /

/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 244M 30M 201M 13% /boot

/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 3.9G 75M 3.6G 2% /opt

none 391M 0 391M 0% /dev/shm

/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 5.8G 224M 5.3G 4% /var

/vmfs/devices 814G 0 814G 0% /vmfs/devices

/vmfs/volumes/4643eb73-018e4270-72ed-001b782f773a

304G 238G 65G 78% /vmfs/volumes/esx1_1

/vmfs/volumes/464d5cd5-682ab27c-ab60-001b782f773a

9.8G 8.6G 1.1G 88% /vmfs/volumes/esx1_2

/vmfs/volumes/47c8c330-cdf71dc0-70ae-001b782f773a

29G 8.6G 21G 28% /vmfs/volumes/esx1_3

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