[Wolves] LAMP server partitioning

Andy Wootton andy.wootton at wyrley.demon.co.uk
Fri Feb 24 00:46:11 GMT 2006


David Cockayne wrote:

> I was thinking of going with
>
> /boot       200Mb
> swap       4GB (server has 4GB ram)
> /              30GB
> /moodle   the rest
>
> are there really advantages to giving /usr /var /tmp /home etc 
> seperate partitions for this sorrt of server 

Upgrades, reinstalls or change of OS, particularly /home
People sometimes like to put areas that grow onto a seperate device, 
where a full disk would be less 'exciting'

Woo



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