On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Jon Lewis wrote:
> 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.
I just consider it insurance, because running out of swap is so, so ugly.
>> 1GB - / (root)
>> 15GB - /var (qmail puts everything in there)
>
> Are you delivering to /var or to user home dirs?
Yes, Maildir, but the queues are in /var and I even still have one or two
customer ezmlm mailling lists under /var/qmail/alias, as weird as that
sounds.
>> 10GB - /usr (base binaries and ports)
I'm thinking that perhaps since /usr is so static, except for ports, that
I could just keep it under the root partition. Maybe I can symlink
/usr/ports to /usr/local/ports anyway...I never understood why they did't
do that to begin with. Obviously, root filling up is nasty.
>> 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.
That's going to be done in either case, most likely to an amanda server on
a separate network.
I'm getting the impression that it's better to keep the number of
partitions as low as possible these days.
James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
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