Re: *nix partitioning practices
Jon Lewis <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 [email protected] wrote: > Figuring 500GB of unformatted storage (~465GB formatted), I am thinking > along these lines: > > 8GB - SWAP (4GB RAM) Space is cheap, so wasting a little on swap probably isn't a big deal, but are you going to be getting anything done if the server gets 4-8GB into swap? I'd probably give swap a little less room. > 1GB - / (root) > 15GB - /var (qmail puts everything in there) Are you delivering to /var or to user home dirs? > 10GB - /usr (base binaries and ports) > 10GB - /usr/local (additional binaries I install) > 200GB - /home I used to just have one home fs, but I found that it > 200GB - /home2 makes for very long amanda restores for a customer site Backup to disk on another server (instead of or in addition to tape) and individual customer site restores will be much faster regardless of /home partition size. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ -- Eat sushi frequently. - Avi [email protected] is the human contact address. [email protected] is the list posting address. See below URL for subscribe/unsubscribe and list options: http://inet-access.net/mailman/listinfo/list