Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:04:58 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> Subject: Re: Looking for 'ideal' web-server partitions Message-ID: <20041229160458.GF3644@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> In-Reply-To: <20041228175429.O38542@pemaquid.safeport.com> References: <000001c4ed24$d08bb980$9900000a@ZGISH> <41D1DE58.1090604@vonostingroup.com> <20041228175429.O38542@pemaquid.safeport.com>
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--7cm2iqirTL37Ot+N Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Kiffin Gish wrote: >=20 > I want to create a web server for a few personal web sites (virtual > named hosts) using Apache, Perl, PHP and MySQL. Maybe later using > mod_perl and > ssl. > > No mail servers or other complicated stuff, just a plain-vanilla web > server for the general public and an average visitor traffic of below > 1000 per day. > > I have 40G to use up on an AMD Sempron 1300+ with 512MB and was just > wondering what would be a good way to divvy up the partitions. I was > thinking something like this: > > SWAP 1024M > / 1057M > /db 6.3G > /usr 24G > /var 4.2G > /www 42G > > I've heard arguments for and against a separate /db and/or /tmp > partition as well as using a /home. Also I see that there is a > /usr/local/www directory already so perhaps the /www partition is not > required. Is a separate /db > partition really needed? > > I'm pretty confused and would like to setup my web server the right > way once and for all. Are there any standard recipes and/or guides to > figuring this out or is it just a bunch of guess work? > > How does this look? If I could make one quick suggestion, I would urge you to attempt to mount you various partitions in more standard locations. For example, instead of mounting your "db" partition at /db, why not mount it at /var/db? And instead of mounting your "www" partition at /www, how about at /var/www, or the FreeBSD standard of /usr/local/www? Having these specific directories represent a separate filesystem is fine, and perhaps desirable, but having them all mounted on root makes for a less standard filesystem layout, which in general is not a good thing. Nathan --7cm2iqirTL37Ot+N Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB0tWqO0ZIEthSfkkRAlGNAJ91TRMAiE9fVNO4zcU70Geuo63CQACeL4ne tnpKGk0s+DmGdV+C5v5s5hY= =25bb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7cm2iqirTL37Ot+N--
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