On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 at 9:30pm (-0700), Patrick Beart wrote: > Folks: > > I'm setting up a new Web and mail server for a Web site > hosting operation. Security is paramount to my partitioning scheme > for the hard disk. Therefore, I'm not going with the default Red Hat > partitioning. I'm doing a custom setup, instead. > I've reviewed the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) in an > effort to better understand what data the primary directories > contain. However, this doesn't give me a real good idea of the > relative sizes of any file system partitions, beyond "/"(root). > > I'm wondering what the rough percentages (as the sizes of > hard drives vary widely) of the following primary directories on > people's systems that are currently running commercial Web and mail > hosting (for multiple clients)... > /home > /usr > /var (and any subdirectories, such as /var/spool) > /root > /tmp > > Any feedback would be appreciated. TIA >
"Due to bad planning, all hundred and twenty-two thousand miles of the string is in three inch lengths. So it's not very useful." Seriously though.... partitioning is tricky. I don't have any specific recomendations except that you definitly use LVM (or something similar). Then at least if you need to fine tune your filesystem sizes later on it becomes much easier. For me a newly kickstart'ed system looked like... Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2231 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 4 32098+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 5 200 1574370 83 Linux /dev/sda3 201 331 1052257+ 82 Linux swap /dev/sda4 332 2231 15261750 8e Linux LVM ... and ... Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 1.5G 105M 1.2G 8% / /dev/sda1 30M 8.9M 19M 31% /boot none 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm /dev/vg_sys/lv_usr 1.5G 802M 633M 56% /usr /dev/vg_sys/lv_var 1008M 54M 903M 6% /var /dev/vg_sys/lv_log 2.0G 33M 1.8G 2% /var/log /dev/vg_sys/lv_home 496M 8.1M 462M 2% /home /dev/vg_sys/lv_tmp 496M 8.1M 462M 2% /tmp ... which leaves a big chunk of sda4 unassigned so I can grow the logical volumes if needs be later on.... in most cases without a reboot. M. -- :wq! -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
