The following is an example of a
server setup in an academic setting, and is contributed by
nakano (at) apm.seikei.ac.jp. I have only done minor editing to
this section.
/var/spool/delegate is a directory for storing logs and cache files
of an WWW proxy server program, "delegated". Since I don't notice it
widely, there are 1000--1500 requests/day currently, and average
disk usage is 15--30% with expiration of caches each day.
/mnt.archive is used for data files which are big and not frequently
referenced such a s experimental data (especially graphic ones),
various source archives, and Win95 backups (growing very fast...).
/mnt.root is backup root file system containing rescue utilities. A
boot floppy is also prepared to boot with this partition.
=================================================
Directory               sda      sdb     hda    
swap                    |    64 |    64 |       |
/                       |       |       |    20 |
/tmp                    |       |       |   180 |
/var                    :   300 :       :       :
/var/tmp                |       |   300 |       |
/var/spool/delegate     |   300 |       |       |
/home                   |       |       |   850 |
/usr                    |   360 |       |       |
/usr/lib                -> /mnt.lib/usr.lib
/usr/local/lib          -> /mnt.lib/usr.local.lib
/mnt.lib                |       |   350 |       |
/mnt.archive            :       :  1300 :       :
/mnt.root               |       |    20 |       |
Total capacity:            1024    2034    1050
=================================================
        Drive :           sda     sdb     hda
Total capacity:         |  1024 |  2034 |  1050 |
Partition
1                       |   300 |    20 |    20 |
2                       :    64 :  1300 :   180 :
3                       |   300 |    64 |   850 |
4                       :   360 :   ext :       :
5                       |       |   300 |       |
6                       :       :   350 :       :
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda1              19485   10534     7945     57%   /
/dev/hda2             178598      13   169362      0%   /tmp
/dev/hda3             826640  440814   343138     56%   /home
/dev/sda1             306088   33580   256700     12%   /var
/dev/sda3             297925   47730   234807     17%   /var/spool/delegate
/dev/sda4             363272  170872   173640     50%   /usr
/dev/sdb5             297598       2   282228      0%   /var/tmp
/dev/sdb2            1339248  302564   967520     24%   /mnt.archive
/dev/sdb6             323716   78792   228208     26%   /mnt.lib
Apparently /tmp and /var/tmp is too big. These
directories shall be
packed together into one partition when disk space shortage comes.
/mnt.lib is also seemed to be, but I plan to install newer TeX and
ghostscript archives, so /usr/local/lib may grow about 100 MB or so
(since we must use Japanese fonts!).
Whole system is backed up by Seagate Tapestore 8000 (Travan TR-4, 4G/8G).