Start at /var as 1 gig, this should prove adequate for most things. I assume /var/www will be your document root? think of space towards this unless your putting the domains into /home/
Is there lots of mail? 3 gig is probably a fair start for /var/spool/mail I am not aware /var/lib changes much so 1 gig seems heaps. there will be logs so /var/log could be seperate as well, say 3 gig. regards S -----Original Message----- From: Mark Bucciarelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 3 April 2003 3:30 To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org Subject: Partitioning a Web Server I'm going to be setting up a web server this Friday, and I'm trying to work out how to partition the disk. The plan is to use apache mod_v_host to serve up to 50 domains and will also be an email server. PHP + MySQL also. It's expected that most of the domains will be small fry, probably most of the usage (disk + bandwidth) will be the email. First, the box is a 60G 10,000 RPM disk PIII 750MHz, 512MB RAM. Does this sound reasonable? I have a couple things I need to decide: (1) what partitions to define and (2) what sizes to make them. For example, one document I read suggested creating a seperate partition for /var/spool/mail and /var/lib. I'm a bit nervous that if I guess wrong then I'll be screwed when the partition fills up. I'm not going to mess around with LVM. So, what's a good rule of thumb for how much space to save for emails, for, say, 50 domains, each with say five addresses? Ball park, say +/- 1G. Is it better to break up /var into different partitions or leave it all as one? Thanks for any pointers! Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
