RE: *nix partitioning practices

Having worked with systems though the years of 1926092730 partitions, ive started being as simple as I can possibly be.

Typically I do 2x physical memory to swap, 2gb to /root and the rest to /

If I have multiple disks in a server, and im going to have something extremely high IO, I might break out a partition and put it just on that disk.  As an example I have a production webserver that has /home/web mounted directly to a second disk due to the fact that with the web users home dir on the main disk the sql queries started to lag during periods of high traffic.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jp
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:41 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: *nix partitioning practices

swap
/
/home

is my typical arrangement

Mail gets delivered to ~, so I don't need a big separate place for that
to accumulate. Logs can take up lots of space, but disk is cheap.

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:46:17AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Sorry if this is pretty basic, but I'd like to revisit it.  For years,
> I've been partitioning my FreeBSD servers pretty much like I used to
> partition my Solaris 2 servers way back.  I did this simply because it's
> what I was used to, but I realize that especially with the much larger
> disks we have now, this is worth changing.
>
> Figuring 500GB of unformatted storage (~465GB formatted), I am thinking
> along these lines:
>
> 8GB  - SWAP  (4GB RAM)
> 1GB  -  /    (root)
> 15GB - /var  (qmail puts everything in there)
> 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
>
> The roughly 20GB left over could be used for adding swap at a later date,
> if neccessary.  Before now, I used to do as above, only with no separate
> /usr/local and only one /home.  The idea is for a quick recovery in the
> even a system has to be restored, and also to perhaps not have to back up
> /usr all the time.
>
> I'd like to get experienced thoughts on this.
>
> TIA,
>
> James Smallacombe                   PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
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