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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: Snoopyski on December 26, 2007, 08:52:53 PM

Title: Best way install between default and multipart ???
Post by: Snoopyski on December 26, 2007, 08:52:53 PM

Hello Heveryone,

I just want to know what is the best way to install SME Server on a brand new computer Core 2 Duo 2.6GHZ with 2GB RAM ?

It is standard install or Multipart ??? or Why use (advantage) of multipart ???

I think multupart will be faster ? No ?

Thanks,

Stéphane

Title: Re: Best way install between default and multipart ???
Post by: CharlieBrady on December 28, 2007, 05:47:09 PM

Quote from: Snoopyski on December 26, 2007, 08:52:53 PM

I just want to know what is the best way to install SME Server on a brand new computer Core 2 Duo 2.6GHZ with 2GB RAM ?

Use the default install, since you obviously don't have pressing needs to do otherwise. No, you won't notice any speed difference.

Title: Re: Best way install between default and multipart ???
Post by: Snoopyski on December 29, 2007, 02:37:34 AM

Hello Charlie,

Thanks for the answer...
But presently the server is already installed on client site with the option "multipart".
So the server is up and running about 3 days...

So can I leave the server with this option or you suggest to "reformat" and reinstall everything or Changes nothing ?

Thanks,

Snoopyski

Title: Re: Best way install between default and multipart ???
Post by: Daniel B. on December 29, 2007, 12:07:02 PM

I thin k you can let in multipart if it's already running. But look at the available space on your different partition (df command) you should see that the different partitions (/ /var /tmp and /home/e-smith/files) are very small and most of your hard drive won't be used. This is the standard behavior and allows you to dispatch the space on the partitions like you want. This is possible and quite easy because it uses LVM. Type the command vgdisplay to see the free (non allocated) space:

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vgdisplay

  --- Volume group ---
  VG Name               main
  System ID             
  Format                lvm2
  Metadata Areas        1
  Metadata Sequence No  10
  VG Access             read/write
  VG Status             resizable
  MAX LV                0
  Cur LV                5
  Open LV               5
  Max PV                0
  Cur PV                1
  Act PV                1
  VG Size               74,41 GB
  PE Size               32,00 MB
  Total PE              2381
  Alloc PE / Size       1886 / 58,94 GB
  Free  PE / Size       495 / 15,47 GB
In this example, there's 15,47 G available.

If you want to grow the /tmp partition of 10G, do the following:

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lvextend -L +10G /dev/main/tmp
ext2online /dev/main/tmp
The first command will grow the logical volume, the second will extend the file system to the new size. Everything can be done online, without shuting down the server or even umounting a partition.

Hope this can help you.