Thanks for the suggest, I thin begin with a 100GB hard disk, for managing users (web-mail-db) and allocate some dynamic web sites.
I share the opinion about the split /var, in the past only /var/postgresql was split for me, is a good suggest /var/mail /var/mysql and /var/log Thanks and Best Regards. --- On Fri, 11/7/08, Mikel Lindsaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Mikel Lindsaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: recommended disk layout for small web/mail/db server > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Friday, November 7, 2008, 2:05 AM > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Francisco Valladolid Hdez. > < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm setting a small web/mail/db server for sell > web hosting, it run OpenBSD > > 4.4. I want to know the different view point about the > disk layout for this > > purpose. > > I don't have sufficient resources for buying three > separate machines > > (web/mail/db) at this time. > > > Depends on how big your hard drive is obviously, but here > are some pointers: > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Disks > > Provides a good starting point for a 13G drive. It says: > > / 150M > Swap 300M > /tmp 120M > /var 80M > /usr 6G > /home 4G > > Now, you say that you want to use mail, web and database. > > In OpenBSD, if you install from ports or packages, your > data for the mail, > ftp and database is going to be under the /var partition, > in /var/www, > /var/db and /var/mail. > > To begin with, you are probably best off just allocating > more to /var. And > in your case, I assume your drive is going to be a lot > larger than 13Gb > > So just add more the /var partition, a bit more to the /usr > partition. > > If you wanted to get really smart, you could add a /var/log > parition and > give it a few Gb, or split up /var/db, /var/mail and > /var/www into separate > partitions, but I think it is just overkill for what you > want. > > By the time your server starts running out of space, you > will know which > apps are taking the room and will be able to migrate to a > bigger and better > configuration. > > Mikel > > > -- > http://lindsaar.net/ > Rails, RSpec and Life blog....
