Recommended partitioning
John Oxley
john at yoafrica.com
Sun Oct 16 05:51:00 PDT 2005
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 05:01:01PM -0400, Teo De Las Heras wrote:
> Part Size
> / 10G - for both the / and /usr files
> (swap) 2G
> /var 10G - Web server, print spool, other log files??
> /var/mail 10G - for all mail files and easy backup
> /home 50G - for all user files
> /home/teo 40G - For my files and easy backup
> *The rest of the space I'll leave unused in case I need to grow a partition
> I'm new to FreeBSD/*Nix so all criticism is welcome.
> Teo
Keep / small, around 200MB, and split user from this. You'll understand
why as soon as something nasty happens while you're writing to /usr and
the machine falls over. You can still boot because / is mainly static.
put 10-20 gigs in usr. When you build ports, they use space in /usr (by
default. You can change this) which is why I say 20 gigs.
256M in /tmp is fine
/var you want to be quite big if you're running a production server or a
mysql box, because db files and logs and mail etc. go to /var by
default. I find it easier to make /var big than create symlinks or
modify where things go.
Splitting /var and /var/mail is a good idea because if /var fills up
with logs then you'll still receive mail. For the same reason its a
good idea to make /var/db/mysql separate as well. The problem you run
into there is say you've put 10 gigs for each and you have 3 gigs of
logs, 5 gigs of mail and need 12 gigs for your database, then you loose
the flexibility.
I put my web pages in /usr/local/www/virtual/ so that comes under /usr.
You may want to put 90 gigs straight into /home and then setup quota's
so your users don't use up your disk space.
My 2 cents.
-John
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John Oxley
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