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Ok, this is the last question I need to answer for myself before |
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installing a final version of my new virtualized gentoo server... |
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I'll be using the following partition layout: |
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/boot (ext2), 100M |
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/swap, 2G |
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/ (ext4), 40G |
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then on LVM |
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/tmp (ext2), 5G? <- how big? |
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/var/tmp (ext2), 5G? <- how big? |
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/var/log (ext4) <- size? should I even have this separate? |
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/var (xfs), 750G |
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/snapshots (xfs), 10G? <- for lvm snapshots of /var for backups |
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I'm not using a separate /home because there are no system users beyond |
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my admin user (and the system user accounts)... |
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So - first, is 5G way too big for the two /tmp dirs? I have lots of |
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space, but hate waste |
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This mail server is not all that busy, and the backups only take about |
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an hour, so I guesstimate that there won't be more than about 100-300MB |
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of changes at the *extreme* outside of the envelope, so the 10G is most |
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likely extreme overkill... but I'll know soon enough, and besides, I've |
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got plenty of disk space to play with. |
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One question... I have some MySQL databases running on this system too, |
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for my userdbs, and on the new server, SOGo (groupware)... |
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Is it recommended to incorporate scripts to perform dumps of the dbs, or |
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is the lvm snapshot reliable enough for backing these up in their raw state? |
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Thanks as always for comments/suggestions/criticisms... |
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