From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 22 0:53:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E56B37B422 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 00:53:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 33653 invoked by uid 100); 22 May 2001 07:53:28 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15114.6904.891191.445920@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 02:53:28 -0500 To: "genetix" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seperarte Disk for /var In-Reply-To: <65083893@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG genetix types: > Hi, I heard that it was a good idea to have /var on a separate disk in case > your system hard drive crashes, the logs and stuff will remain...the system is > a web server running apache with open ssl and ssh both with maximum logging, > and that is it. how big of a hard drive would be necessary for that? Depends on how busy your web server is. If you get one hit a day, a floppy should do. If you get 20 million hits a day, you'll need a bit more than that. If you're serious about this, I'd recommend setting up as much of your system as possible on a RAID disk system. To get a mirror, you need twice the disk you've got now. You can't put root on it, but you can put everything else on it. That way, if one disk dies, you've still got everything that was on the raid system. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message