Looking for Advice on Debian Server Setup

[Mark Phillips]

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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