Partition Schema

[nickp666]

Hi All,

I will be buying a cpanel license tomorrow, please could someone recommend a partition schema for a 73GB drive, I am unsure as to how much space to allocate to each partition

many thanks.

Nick Pack

[dgbaker]

In the cpanel docs at http://www.cpanel.net there are recommendations for partiioning.

[nickp666]

thankyou, and apologies for cross-posting this.

I wonder could you please advise on the following schema, having read the doc you said about, I have decided on this:

1GB /
50MB /boot
1GB /tmp
15GB /usr
15GB /var
1GB swap

everything else to /home

apologies to be nagging about this but I really do need to get this right, i understand everyone here helps of their own free will and that is greatly appreciated.

The server will be hosting somewhere in the region of 300 accounts on a 73.3GB Drive

thank you

[chirpy]

Personally:

I'd give more to / so that you're free to store what you want in /root and other top level dirs.

I wouldn't give /usr 15GB, that's probably excessive and 10GB would be plenty.

Swap should be 2*RAM.

/var looks good because of log files, mail spool, but most importantly, MySQL databases live there by default.

/boot is entirely up to how many kernels you like to keep. 50MB should be fine.

The rest for /home and an completely separate disk for /backup if you can.

[nickp666]

thankyou so much.

box has a gig of ram & a 2.8ghz Xeon, does it need more than a gig of swap in your opinion?

[chirpy]

Have a read here for good reasons for having swap as 2*RAM:
http://www.linux-tutorial.info/modul...ial&pageid=218