How should I partition the hard drive prior to installing Plesk?

Resolution

We cannot give any exact numbers, however, you should take into account the following.



Plesk for Linux OSes stores all users' data in /var partition by default, so the partitioning should be like:



SWAP -> twice RAM size

/boot -> 128 MB

/ -> System + Plesk, updates. 5-10 GB should be enough.

/tmp -> 5GB.

/var -> the rest of the space (domains, mail, backups, databases are stored there)



Directories that usually take much disk space:



/var/www/vhosts (/srv/vhosts on SuSE) - domains.

/var/qmail - mail.

/var/lib/mysql - Mysql databases.

/var/lib/psa/dumps - Plesk clients'/domains' backups.

/var/lib/pgsql/data - Postgres databases.

/var/tomcat* - Tomcat applications.

/var/lib/mailman - Mailman lists.



Please check file /etc/psa/psa.conf for all other directories used by Plesk control panel.



Plesk Contorl Panel under FreeBSD uses the /usr/local partition for storing large quantity of data and /var/db partition for databases.

So the /usr and /var partitions have to be larger in this case.



On Debian and Ubuntu, Plesk itself is located in /opt/psa.



Currently supported operating systems can be found on the product requirements page at



http://www.parallels.com/en/products/plesk/reqs.