From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6E211381F3 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:40:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A411E09DB; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:40:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a92.g.dreamhost.com (caibbdcaaaaf.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DFBCE09B2 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:40:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a92.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a92.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F8D3DC082 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:40:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=libertytrek.org; h= message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s= libertytrek.org; bh=saQ6A3EUHvGET+x4lcIQMFTIBP8=; b=bhlkAXRawcVm UD5gVR1TQTWYzGfMCiX229TDv0KkSIOO0s9hZlahShxQyJ+o+v820OxWRrirTvJQ dlZJg5IQFZEejVHh9P8c6mUQJ6joMIGAp99PTzsB8wxxnJHU5IRuDAywTMh3z7hj EVjDqOhFd9hh0jF/l0PrSzXJKmsspXA= Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [159.63.145.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tanstaafl@libertytrek.org) by homiemail-a92.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8D6FE3DC081 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:40:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5177FCC2.9060505@libertytrek.org> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:39:46 -0400 From: Tanstaafl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions - last questions... References: <51769E54.2050609@libertytrek.org> <5176B81E.8000805@binarywings.net> In-Reply-To: <5176B81E.8000805@binarywings.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 86a3782f-f6b0-4912-80e8-cc4d16d1dbff X-Archives-Hash: 7354625169de7f8051630e58e293672d On 2013-04-23 12:34 PM, Florian Philipp 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!