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Re: [Xen-users] Recommended partitioning for xen host

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Recommended partitioning for xen host
From: Geoff Kirk <geoff.k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:10:42 +0000
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Hi,

There shouldn't be anything special about partitioning for Xen just plenty of space for the guests you want to run. What you have planned sounds sensible enough. Usualy the main consideration is can the box handle all the work of all guests it will be running. Swap might be a little excessive for dom0. I usualy go with same amount of ram as i allocate to dom0 using dom0_mem as i would with any physical system. 5gig for root is more than plenty to run xen.

Geoff.

Josh wrote:
Is there a recommended partitioning for dom0?

Here's what I have planned.
/swap   2GB
/boot   100MB (ext3)
/       5GB (ext3)

xenmachines  LVM volume group for the remaining diskspace

dom0 will install in 5GB / and each domU will have a swap and root
logical volume in "xenmachines"

Thank you,

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