Dear friends,
I am going to setup a very busy web server on a FC4 machine. I expect to have more than 30G various web pages and data bases(and normally a large amount of log files).

In this case what is your suggestion for determining partitions ?

Note: We have no limitation in terms of hard disks.

Thank you,

If you want to get really technical you could check out the FHS, though it "has been designed to be used by Unix distribution developers, package developers, and system implementors. However, it is primarily intended to be a reference and is not a tutorial on how to manage a Unix filesystem or directory hierarchy.".

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

Learning this may be a luxury, but try to put it all on LVM. That way if you need to change your partitioning, you can do it dynamically.

I have always been in favor of fine grained partitioning, but the downside is accurately predicting how much you will need for each. Two of the advantages of separate partitions are that they can be backed up, restored, & updated as separate units; & filling one will not overrun the others.

Here is a beginning list of candidates for separate partitionhood:

• /
• /home
• /usr
• /var
• /var/log
• /tmp
• your web pages

You will need to decide which are appropriate for you & what to allocate. Perhaps others will give some sizing suggestions or ask pertinent Q's.

At the bare minimum, you are going to want to separate:

/
/usr
/var
/tmp

And then have the actual hosted sites on their own partition, maybe even their own drive.

For a web server I wouldn't bother separating /home, since you likely won't have much in there (unless this is also an FTP server, in which case the default directory for an FTP connection is the home directory).