On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:45:39 +0200, Sagi Bashari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm setting up a new server and I wondered about hdd partitioning - I
> need big /var and also a big /home - I thought about creating one big
> /home and symlinking the /var to /home/var .
I divide the disk into 3 partitions:
1. / (root) which includes all the distribution and system used
files (including /home, /tmp /var /usr but see note below),
about 5 GB will be more than enough for /.
2. swap area - I usually set it to 2 GB (the maximum possible)
and hope it will never (almost) used.
3. User data partition - rest of the disk.
I have about 16 servers configured like this and all works very
well and I never had any performance issues.
Note. The user's real home and application data are NFS mounted. So
/home, /var and so on are for local system account only (root,
httpd, etc.). If I know that I need a lot of disk space (e.g.
A Data Base server uses lots of /tmp, A mail server may need
space on /var/spool/mail, debug logs on /var/log) the needed
directory is a symbolic links to a directory on the 3rd
partition.
Ehud.
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