[brlug-general] Partitioning suggestions for the LAMP server?

[Andrew Baudouin]

Standard wisdom is to isolate everything across partitions to sandbox 
people who might compromise apache into /var, for example.

This is really a personal preference type of thing, IMO.

Joe Fruchey wrote:

>whoa. Do I really need all those?
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>On 10/12/06, Andrew Baudouin <andrewmb at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>I don't remember how much ram you said you had,  but assuming 2GB
>>(double the ram as a swap partition), I'd partition as follows:
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>>Assuming the drive is called /dev/sda....
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>>/dev/sda1      100MB           ext2         /boot
>>/dev/sda2      4GB              Linux swap
>>/dev/sda3      5GB             reiser3    /tmp
>>/dev/sda4   (Extended holder)
>>/dev/sda5      20GB        xfs/jfs         /var  (I know most
>>distributions place their server application binaries and data under the
>>var directory)
>>/dev/sda6      19GB        xfs/jfs         /usr
>>/dev/sda7      20GB         xfs/jfs         /opt
>>/dev/sda8      10GB         xfs/jfs         /
>>/dev/sda8      1GB        xfs/jfs          /home
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>>Depending on the needs of your applications, you may find that 5GB as
>>/tmp doesn't work well.  Really all of the above information depends on
>>your applications.  If you have a need for a bunch of user specific,
>>large files and less of a need for client applications, decrease /opt
>>and increase /home.
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>>Joe Fruchey wrote:
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>>>Ok, I dusted off my Ubuntu 6.06 LTS DVD (Amazing how much dust
>>>accumulates in four months...), popped two 80GB drives in the GX240,
>>>and started the install.
>>>
>>>I want to do RAID1 for data integrity, but I have no RAID experience
>>>whatsoever. I set it up with 2 active drives and 0 spare drives (is
>>>that right?)
>>>
>>>Now how should I partition this thing? On my desktops, I like to do
>>>one big partition, plus swap, but I know most servers are partitioned
>>>crazily. What should I do?
>>>
>>>Joe
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