[ale] VM guest partitioning practices

[Damon L. Chesser]

On 12/09/2014 04:29 PM, JD wrote:
> Alarming tools monitor disk space pretty well these days. Just sayin'.

Yup, that is how we do it.  "file system on $SERVERNAME /$MOUNTPOINT 85%
full".  Go look.

And is does not need to be /var it is where ever you put your volatile 
data. /tmp is good, also anything in /opt or /usr/local.  and of course
you need to monitor / .  Often times it is a sub dir of /var or /opt
that has it's own dedicated space.  Some above said install it then see
what gets used, then install it for real with (in my case) LVM.

There is no one size fits all. My vendors like installing in /opt and
that is where the app log is written to.
>
> On 12/09/2014 02:40 PM, Todor Fassl wrote:
>> I think creating a seperate partition for /var (at least) is counter productive.
>> If /var fills up, your machine is going to go down because a lot of services
>> will hang if they can't write to the syslog.  Similar logic applies to /usr. I
>> can see having a seperate partion for /home but that is about it.
>>
>>

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