Hi, I'm new to this, I just bought a dedicated server "see below the spec" I want to use this server to host my website. I'm installing CentOS 7.3. I'm at the step where it asks for partitioning. It has been suggested to me by an experienced web host to use the following partitions and sizes: root@server [~]# df -HT Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs rootfs 364G 63G 284G 19% / /dev/root ext3 364G 63G 284G 19% / devtmpfs devtmpfs 17G 488k 17G 1% /dev /dev/md3 ext4 1.6T 22G 1.5T 2% /home tmpfs tmpfs 17G 0 17G 0% /dev/shm /dev/root ext3 364G 63G 284G 19% /var/tmp root@server [~]# What do you guys recommend and why? hardware: RAM 64 GB DDR3 Disks 2 x 2 TB SATA RAID Soft
Its really depends on how server going to serve things, However you can keep simple partition table and not get confused by other things You can keep hosting files in /home partiton , which is recommened by OS provider. If you are doing so then allocate 300-400 GB to / and everything else to /home. 300-400 GB to / is looking at future, since it will keep everthing else than website hosting files.
You can modify the things as / 200000 MB /boot 500MB swap 8000MB /tmp 16000MB /home All remain space Keep in mind for / 200 GB = 200000MB Hope this helps!
