Thanks for your suggestions,

I think to give 5GB to root partition. Moreover, I thought that is best to
create a separate partitions to the log netview directory (in standard
layout, /usr/OV/log) and the webconsole log directory (in standard layout
/usr/OV/www/log).

What do you think about?

Finally, there are more than four partition. So I must create one extended
partition. There is a best choice for mounting particular filesystem on the
logical partition that I will create?

PS.: what kind of filesystem is well suited for my platform (etx2, ext3,
reiserfs and so on)? And what is best inode dimension?

BR,

rocsca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John M Gatrell" <John.Gatrell AT uk.ibm DOT com>
To: <nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [nv-l] IBM Tivoli Netview for Linux Installation


> Just some hints, not to be taken as gospel (I am more familiar with other
> flavours of linux).
> Chances are a Xeon system has hardware raid so you will just see 1 disk of
> 73.4GB
> Starting from the standard install scheme, then
>
> Reduce size of /home to very small (1GB)
>
> In case you ever put other products on such as IBM java, or Tivoli gateway
> add a /opt partition.
> /opt should be at least 2GB.
>
> Keep the root partition '/' small.
> Have a separate /boot partition.
>
> Netview is best in it's own /usr/OV partition.
>
> Split the rest of the disk into 2 partitions called
> /usr and /usr/OV
> say 30% to /usr and 60% to /usr/OV
>
> John Gatrell, BA, AIX Cert Specialist, Cisco CCNA.
>
>
> I need to install IBM Tivoli Netview 7.1.4 on a server IBM xSeries 336:
>
> - 2 x Processor Xeon 3.2 GHz/800MHz 1MB L2 Cache EM64T
> - 2 x HD 73.4 GB
> - 4GB ECC DDR2 SDRAM RDIMM
>
> with OS SLES 9.
>
> I'ld like to figure out what is the best partition scheme to use for my
> platform.
>
> Many Thanks,
>
> rocsca
>