Proxmox on top of Lenny: How to configure the partitions?

[monster]

The installation guide describes how to install Proxmox VE on top of Lenny x64 (which is my only option), but does not give any hints about how the system should be partitioned. It's a pain to change the partitioning of a system after you installed and configured it, in particular if you can only access it by SSH, so it would be nice to know those things beforehand.

How big to make the root?

Should I define explicitly any other partitions, like tmp or var, and how big?

What file system to use? Ext3?

Should the first LVM volume group (including root) cover the whole HD but leave room for move partitions, or be as small as possible, to leave the rest for Proxmox to manage with it's own volume group (s)?

Do I have to define a "backup" partition myself (in VG 0), or does Proxmox do that for me?

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[tom]

The installation guide describes how to install Proxmox VE on top of Lenny x64 (which is my only option), but does not give any hints about how the system should be partitioned. It's a pain to change the partitioning of a system after you installed and configured it, in particular if you can only access it by SSH, so it would be nice to know those things beforehand.

guess why we created an installer doing all this automatically? this method is only if you think the auto-partitioning is not right for you. Maybe you should do a test install and take a look how we do the partitioning. why can´t you use our installer?

How big to make the root?

Should I define explicitly any other partitions, like tmp or var, and how big?

What file system to use? Ext3?

yes. the only reliable one for openvz.

Should the first LVM volume group (including root) cover the whole HD but leave room for move partitions, or be as small as possible, to leave the rest for Proxmox to manage with it's own volume group (s)?

Do I have to define a "backup" partition myself (in VG 0), or does Proxmox do that for me?

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by yourself. but saving backups on the same server is not really the way to go. I suggest you store backups on a NFS server.

 

[monster]

guess why we created an installer doing all this automatically? this method is only if you think the auto-partitioning is not right for you. Maybe you should do a test install and take a look how we do the partitioning. why can´t you use our installer?

I can't use the bare-metal installer for the same reason I cannot use Openfiler; because my Provider does not offer "console" access required to boot from an ISO image (or more precisely, does offer but at an expensive premium). I will run your installer at home, and use what it does as an example to configure Debian.

by yourself. but saving backups on the same server is not really the way to go. I suggest you store backups on a NFS server.

I decided to rent two small servers instead of a big one, so I will do cross-backups.