I have a machine with 2 1tb Sata HDD. I am installing Debian 12 using LVM. I'm at the partitioning disks option. I am wondering if someone could possibly suggest how much of the volume group I should assign to the main partition. I am trying to do this correctly, so, will pause at this point, to get an answer to this question. Thank you in advance!
Since you are using LVM, partition sizes can be changed afterwards. You do not say for what purpose the main partition is to be used, so hard to say what size it should be. What other partitions are planned for that system? What is the system to be used for? Try Internet Search Engines with Code: linux partition size recommendation
I guess I should have been more detailed in my question. I am setting up a server on Dell Poweredge server. I'm hoping to use ISPConfig and a backup server. I posted the question for my husband, and probably could have asked my question differently. I was trying to see if LVM or standard whole disk partitioning would be better. Thank you for your reply, it was helpful, but, we chose not to use LVM.
Both work, ISPConfig does not care which you use. If you do not know what size partitions should be and decided to not use LVM, I suggest you create 4 GB Swap partition and rest of the disk for root partion (the / mount point). That way you at least do not run into problems with one partition filling up but other partitions still having free disk space.
I am running one R710 myself but I am using proxmox for the server itself and it seems better and safer that way rather than running ISPConfig on it directly, so it is on virtual machine instead. And with regards to LVM or not, I'd say LVM is better, and I think it is a standard nowadays, but you already decided on that, and that is not a problem too.
