Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 14 Nov: > > > >time to split it up. worth a few minutes of downtime to improve > >relyability and performance. > > > I only have remote access to the server (it is colocated). > > I asked here few weeks ago if there is a reason to put /var/www > somewhere else (like /home) and the answer I received is that it is > probably better to leave it where it is (because I also have dynamic > data there).
you never mentioned the volume... like we said, you could put your html pages in /tmp for all apache cares. it's a question of usage patterns. > I can move /var to / and repartition /var. But I have software RAID > running on this drive. Is it safe to do, remotely, when software RAID is > activated on / and /home? probably OK, but you won't be able to see that directory till you reboot. mixing MD and non-MD on the same drive makes little sense to me though. > >look at EVMS, it will make many of those steps easier. > > > Yes, you suggested that few weeks ago. But RedHat do not offer it as > part of their official kernels, and I'd rather not compile it myself > because I don't have physical access and kernel security updates are > much easier with the official RPMs. humpf. no solutions without reboots then. try and find a clean hour at 3am when the server can be taken down for a while. > I might just allocate the free 6GB for the spool directory. Which > filesystem should I use for it? reiserfs? it is full tiny files and > directories: I'd say Reiser, yup. definitely. -- Now playing for the Denver Broncos Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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