Hello readers. Existing customer who could not pass up the Dual Xeon special. Before this I had a dual xeon with IDE drives. My problem is this -

I got the 73GB SCSI drive option. I haven't installed jack on the server. I thought /home would have more space. At least 10-15GB more. Does the Current Disk Usage look right to you?

Current Disk Usage
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 7.9G 265M 7.3G 4% /
/dev/sdb1 68G 85M 64G 1% /backup
/dev/sda1 122M 18M 98M 16% /boot
none 1014M 0 1014M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda8 39G 910M 36G 3% /home
/dev/sda6 1012M 39M 922M 5% /tmp
/dev/sda3 7.9G 2.9G 4.7G 38% /usr
/dev/sda2 9.9G 253M 9.1G 3% /var
/tmp 1012M 39M 922M 5% /var/tmp

Running WHM/CPanel.

Thanks!

Well /home is only using 1 gig, its just that its only been partitioned to be 39gig, to get an extra 10-15 gig it would have to be taken away from other partitions such as /var or /usr

Id say thats pretty standard. Seems you just want a partition setup thats heavy on the /home size

Aside from the 1 gig thats in tmp, i wouldnt say overall space usage off for a new server considering the masses of stuff whm/CP like to put on machines

If you have an existing server that you'll be exactly replacing, you could possibly shrink /var and /usr if the overall apache log size generated isn't that large and/or if the mysql database directory isn't very large compared to home web content. But you don't want to set those too small and have them fill up either so I would only do this if I could very well predict the usage for this server.

One thing you could do would be to do only daily backups to the backup partition and then do weekly/monthly to remote nas space or to a remote server via rsync. Then split the current backup into /backup and /home2 with /backup equal to /home and /home2 combined.