I am going to order a server, the economy model with the Xeon but I dont need the 250 G. I see that people advise to partition before set up. Can somebody explain me if it is useful to have a partition and for what reasons ?

Thanks,

LK

Many partition their drives for organizational reasons. For instance you can create a partition for /home for all of your users to keep all user data on.

Partitioning is also a good way to ensure that a filling a file system won't kill your server. For example, if you have a / partition in Linux that fills up your drive and a user's script fills up that volume your whole server could go down. If you create a /home partition or /var and /tmp partitions then a user filling up /home won't take the server down. It may cause problems with your other user's data, but it won't cause the whole server to go down, so you can still log in and fix it without having to contact us for reboots and whatnot.

What size and type partitions you use depends on what you plan on doing with your server. If you can elaborate on that we can recommend a good partition size for you.

Hope this helps.

Hello Kevin,

I will not host other people account but only my own sites. At the moment I have less than 30G data ...

I mainly use php scripts like joomla, smf, mediawiki and a few others ...

I plan to use one partition as backup and cpanel/mysql.

Thanks for your quick reply so I can ordte today.

Loïc

Email issues frequently end up filling up /var with error messages. So even if you are not hosting other users, you should still use the default partition scheme at the very least.