That is the way I have learned too Carl. OS doesn't matter in the end analysis. You losing the companies data will get your arse fired on the spot! It is well known that companies that lose catastrophically their data go out of biz usually within a year. gkey > 3. Re: how much space for partitions /, /home, /var, etc? > (Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom) > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 10:05:08 -0400 > From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome at real-time.com> > To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] how much space for partitions /, /home, > /var, etc? > Message-ID: <20120507140508.GO5146 at real-time.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > For the past several years I've been of the mindset that systems should be > partitioned up by dividing the OS (the bits that make things go) from the > data (the bits that you actually care about). > > So in the case of a webserver, /var/www would get its own partition and > everything else would be on another partition (/). In the case of a shell > server, /home would get its own partition and everything else would be on /. > Obviously this shouldn't be a hard-and-fast rule; a fileserver may have user > data in /var/samba and /home - which you could hardlink together, or make > separate partitions for. > > The reasoning behind this is that if you have some sort of storage failure > (filesystem corruption, disk failure, etc) you have either: > > 1. the OS to help recover the data > OR > 2. the data preserved and you just have to fix up the OS. > > This sort of partitioning scheme has saved me a number of times. > > The more partitions you have of course, the greater the likelihood that > you'll run out of space on one of them. (LVM helps alleviate this, but isn't > always the best choice when optimizing for the common case). > > -- > Carl Soderstrom > Systems Administrator > Real-Time Enterprises > www.real-time.com > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > End of tclug-list Digest, Vol 89, Issue 11 > ****************************************** -- --- Gregory Key https://gm5729.wordpress.com/ Please conserve paper and print this email out ONLY if necessary.