Re: Partitioning a Web Server
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 01:08 pm, Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
> I'm going to be setting up a web server this Friday, and I'm trying to
> work out how to partition the disk. The plan is to use apache
> ...
> First, the box is a 60G 10,000 RPM disk PIII 750MHz, 512MB RAM. Does
> this sound reasonable?
>
> I have a couple things I need to decide: (1) what partitions to define
> and (2) what sizes to make them.
> ...
FWIW my Netserva formulae is...
/dev/hda5 / 200Mb
/dev/hda6 /usr 1Gb
/dev/hda7 /var 4Gb
/dev/hda8 /home (the rest)
/dev/hda9 swap 200Mb
/dev/hda10+ (sizes extracted from /home)
If it's for a desktop machine then I swap the /usr /var sizes... if I'm
not sure the HDD will be desktop or a server then I make it 3Gb and 3Gb.
My webspace is /home/vhosts and I use courier for mail so all mail goes
into the user home dir within /home/vhosts (no system-wide mail spool).
I also use a pair of removable caddies in nearly every machine regardless
of whether it's a desktop or server so I can rely on mounting /dev/hdc5
thru /dev/hdc8 on every HDD I have. /dev/hda9 is always swapspace.
--markc
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