Partition size

Discussion in 'Installation/Configuration' started by heyp, Sep 19, 2005.

  1. heyp

    heyp New Member

    Hi all,

    if you had 18GB for partitioning available, how would you size your partitions for webserver services?

    Thx for your input! :cool:
     
  2. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    /boot 50 - 100MB
    swap 500 - 1000MB
    / the rest
     
  3. deflin

    deflin New Member

    why use the rest for / ?
    if you have some logfiles which are growing rapidly you're system might crash/hang cause of insufficient disk space. I always make a /var partition. It's better to have a full partition then to have a full disk :)
     
  4. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    But then I'd make a partition for /var/log instead of /var ;) because the MySQL database is normally under /var, and also the mailboxes if you use the mbox format.
     

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