There's a lot of infos about this out there, but there's also a lot of contradictory infos… That's why i need some advices about it.

So far, on the servers i had home for test (or even "home production") purposes i didn't really care about partitioning and i configured all in / + a swap partition, over RAID 0.

Nevertheless, this pattern can't apply to production servers. I have found a good starting point here, but also it depends on what the servers will be used for…

So basically, i have a server on which there will be apache, php, mysql. It will have to handle file uploads (up to 2GB) and has 2*2TB hard drive. I plan to set :

• / 100GB,
• /var 1000GB (apache files and mysql files will be here),
• /tmp 800GB (handles the php tmp file)
• /home 96GB
• swap 4GB

All of this if of course over RAID 1. But actually, it's not a big deal if I lose data being uploaded, so would it be interesting mounting /tmp over raid 0 while maintaining the rest over raid 1?

Sounds complicated…