Looking for Advice on Debian Server Setup

[Lisa Kachold]

Tomcat creates a great deal of logs; it's needs to eat diskspace just
to be debugged.
An excellent log retention policy works wonders, but when developers
need debug data, you need that diskspace.

If you have the luxury of a huge drive, go-head partition away.

Otherwise do what the Linode people suggest, so your systems is
scalable, can be factored for new uses etc.  The benefits with modern
kernel drivers of partitioning are small.

Just be sure to dd whatever you can backup in a regular scheme right
after building for roll-back restoration purposes?

On 4/28/09, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> Lisa,
>
> I agree totally......but, unfortunately, with a Linode account, I don't have
> any control over the hardware, just the software. With a Linode account, do
> I need to partition the drive for a production/public facing Zope/Plone/ and
> maybe Tomcat server, or just make one big partition as the Linode folks
> suggested?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Lisa Kachold
> <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:
>
>> On 4/27/09, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
>>
>> > I am setting up a new server for Plone/Zope sites on a Linode VPS.
>> Reading
>> > the "Securing Debian Manual" (
>> > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/), it recommends
>> > separate partitions for /tmp, /home, /opt, and /var. I was talking with
>> some
>> > of the Linode folks on IRC to find out how to set up separate
>> > partitions,
>> > and they felt that it was unnecessary to have separate partitions for a
>> > production server (regardless if it is on Linode or not).
>> >
>> > I am interested in any opinions on the subject from this list.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > Mark
>> >
>>
>> Old partitioning in Linux was required and many schemes existed.
>> There are as many schools of thought as there are systems
>> administrators, just like the ext3, xfs arguments.
>>
>> It's also been my experience that what is more important (and often
>> not even compared) is a selection of drive media (SCSI, SATA/PATA, FC)
>> bus speed, read/writes and patch versions on linux kernel drivers.
>>
>> I.E. I have run systems with one HUGE / directory under SCSI that were
>> screaming fast running the same version of redhat without divided
>> partitions compared with the same American Micro "whitebox" running
>> IDE drives that were dog slow.  I rarely needed to fsck a partition,
>> instead losing the the whole drive (due to heat issues, cheap media or
>> both).
>>
>> Now most production systems use a variety of drives, but especially a
>> fine RAID controller card, over LVM/LVM2.
>>
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