Single large disk for confluence

[me]

Hi 

I have linux server that have two disk

1-for os

2-for confluence data

Now I have question about which is logical for confluence data:

1- have single partition with huge size? E.g 5TB disk

2- or use multiple disk with small size (e.g use virtual disk to see disks as single with tools like Mhddfs)? E.g 5x1TB disk

any idea?

thanks

[Alexis Robert]

Hi @me , 

any system administrator will tell you that a good practice is to have separate partitions : this way, if there's an issue on a data partition (for example, logs filling up a directory) then it won't impact other OS components.

Also, it's easier when you want to increase some partition size (addind a new disk for example) if it's separated : this way you will only need to move some Confluence data to a new disk and the service won't be impacted.

It would advise :

• one partition for logs (the ones in CONFLUENCE_HOME/logs and CONFLUENCE_DIR/logs) 
• one partition for data (CONFLUENCE_HOME)
• one partition fot the OS and Confluence binaries

Let me know if this helps, 

--Alexis

[me]

@Alexis Robert 

Hi, thank you for answer,

actually the main problem is data partition, os and log maintain on separate disk.

So do you have any idea about data partition?

Thank,

[Alexis Robert]

For the data partition, you can make several volumes for : 

• attachments (maybe you can specifically scan this partition for viruses etc)
• backups
• rest of the data

[Kishan Sharma]

Hi @me 

Alexis has correctly advised about how to setup the partitions, so that if one partition is full, it should not affect others. You should keep a separate partition for OS binary, Home Directory and Install Directory (although they can be on same partition). The home directory will contain large amount of data so it should be generously sized.