I am fixin to build a new CentOS6 or SL6.1 server to replace an older CentOS5 server running Apache/vsftpd/mail and other services.

Presently, it has multiple virtual host on it and the end customers data is located in the /home directory.


Would there be any negative impact in placing the end users web_data in /var and mounting it (/etc/fstab) with usrquota, grpquota and only enforcing it on the user accounts only?

All of the server logs are in /var however if the quota is not set on root it should not impact anything correct?

I think it would be a cleaner setup and easier to manage the virtual host by creating /var/www/virtualhost then the user_directories underneath.


Any advice/suggestions would be great.

You can do it.
Test it before do anything

generics array

I will give this a try on a test VM, I would feel better the data being under /var than in /home directory.




thanks

If you're worried about log file growth and user data contending for space, then you might consider a separate filesystem just for /var/www. Carve out filesystem sizes carefully, and/or use LVM2.