[Wolves] LAMP server partitioning

[David Cockayne]

So for your web server you have effectively 2 partitions,
/
/var

suse installs web & ftp into /srv
but not the database

so perhaps
/boot
swap
/            -25Gb
/srv       -rest

and have

/srv/www
 /srv/moodlestore  - instead of own partition

would be best for me?
ps yes the server has a raid controller :)

James Turner wrote:

>On Friday 24 Feb 2006 00:41, Andy Wootton wrote:
>  
>
>>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'
>>    
>>
>
>Areas that grow or change frequently over time have traditionally been stored 
>under /var (hence the name - short for "variable"), although having a 
>top-level directory for major applications is also popular (like 
>your /moodle). I second Andy Smith's suggestion to use LVM and also RAID if 
>the storage is implemented using multiple discs.
>
>Some disc layouts I've used (/boot and swap omitted for (slight) brevity):
>
>
>Reasonable size file and X application server, 220Gb RAID, lots of user data 
>in /home)
>
>/            - 4Gb
>/usr         - About 8Gb used (bigger than it needs to be at the
>               moment - needs downsizing)
>/var         - 4Gb
>/home        - Approx. 50% of remaining space
>/var/export  - Approx. 50% of remaining space (NFS and Samba shares)
>
>
>Small web/mail server (/home folder unimportant, contains temp work area only)
>
>/      - 6Gb
>/var   - All remaining space (web sites, databases, mail spool directories)
>
>
>Small Intranet web/FTP server (/home folder unimportant, contains temp work 
>area only, 2xIDE discs)
>
>/           - Whole of first disc  - Everything except FTP site
>/var/ftp    - Whole of second disc - FTP site
>
>
>Various firewalls, DNS/DHCP servers, routers, etc: (/home folders unused)
>
>/   - Everything (usually small disc)
>
>
>Regards,
>
>James
>
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