> On Sep 17, 2026, at 1:45 PM, Sylvain Saboua <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 2026-09-17 17:35, Kevin wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 12:12 PM Sylvain Saboua <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On my server I allocated 230GB on the SSD for
>>> the /var/www fstab directory.
>>> But most of my relevant data files will be on a
>>> single 16TB HDD partition mounted on the /mnt
>>> directory.
>>> Say I wish to use nextcloud or otherwise make a
>>> web server mirror of my sftp server: is there a
>>> straightforward way to serve files located on
>>> the /mnt partition ?
>> Have you considered just changing the chroot to point to your other
>> directory?
> Alas, I ALSO have a public website as well as gotwebd(8) using httpd(8).
> See the previous email in response to Ingo.
>
>> We do this on a directory that's grown from "Large" to "Of Biblical
>> Proportion" in size where we plain ran out of space in /var.
>> The solution was:
>> 1. Add another virtual disk thanks to the beauty of vmd and
> Ah ! I actually wanted to take a closer look at OpenBSD virtualisation.
>> 2. Move the chroot to the new disk.
>> Sounds like your situation is similar?
> It does. I need to manread, please don't hesitate to indicate
> relevant manpages/sections. You're giving me an idea now, also
> in relation to the previous email, where I could create several
> virtual disk images on the same 16TB disk, to be used for different
> services. This is just a passing thought, not sure it's *that* relevant.
Yes, multiple VMs with their own virtual disks is the best practice for this.
You have one or two public services and a handful of private services. At a
minimum, separate the public services into their own VM. That way your private
data is protected in case the public VM gets compromised.
>
>> From man httpd.conf:
>> chroot directory
>> Set the chroot(2) directory. If not specified, it defaults to
>> /var/www, the home directory of the www user.
> I don't think I can set chroot directories /per-process/ ?
> I.e. having different httpd(8)'s spawned with different chroot directories ...
> that would have been the most straight forward solution.
>
> --
> Sylvain Saboua
> looking for a PDP-11
>
