Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions - last questions...

[Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>]

On 2013-04-23 12:34 PM, Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net> wrote:
> Am 23.04.2013 16:44, schrieb Tanstaafl:
>> /boot (ext2), 100M
>> /swap, 2G
>> / (ext4), 40G
>>
>> then on LVM
>>
>> /tmp (ext2), 5G? <- how big?
>> /var/tmp (ext2), 5G? <- how big?

> If this is a production server I wouldn't use ext2. In the case of a
> crash or reboot, you don't want to loose precious uptime just because of
> fsck or corrupted file systems.

Noted, changed these to ext4...

>> /var/log (ext4) <- size? should I even have this separate?

> Doesn't need to be separate but could prevent a runaway process from
> filling /var just because it is spamming log entries. Could also be
> achieved with quotas.

Filling up due to runaway logging is why I wanted this on a separate 
partition, and I prefer this to quotas...

>> One question... I have some MySQL databases running on this system too,
>> for my userdbs, and on the new server, SOGo (groupware)...
>>
>> Is it recommended to incorporate scripts to perform dumps of the dbs, or
>> is the lvm snapshot reliable enough for backing these up in their raw
>> state?

> Restoring from lvm snapshot is like restoring after a black out or
> similar crash. Having proper dumps is always a good idea.

The snapshots are strictly transient, created/dropped during rsnapshot 
backups...

I think I will schedule a cronjob for sql dumps too, for an extra 
backup/restore option...

> Hope this helps,

Very much, thanks Florian!