[Xymon] New server - using Terabithia RPMs - disk layout?

[me at tdiehl.org]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2019, John Horne wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have been given a new server to which to move our old Xymon service. The old
> service was all run out of one directory. With the RPM's I can see that things
> have split up a bit - for example into '/var/lib/xymon', '/usr/share/xymon',
> 'var/www/xymon' and so on.
>
> The new server has a (separate from the O/S) 30GB disk which I was going to
> create as a single partition and mount as one directory. However, I am unsure
> as to which directory is going to become most used (in terms of the number of
> files/directories). On the new server the '/var/www/xymon' directory has
> nothing in it, but according to our old server it contains the 'rep' and 'snap'
> subdirectories which contain the most data (5GB each).
>
> If both 'rep' and 'snap' can have most of their data deleted (which I think
> they can), then perhaps the partition should be assigned to '/var/lib/xymon'
> since (on the old server) it contains the 'hostdata' and 'histlogs'
> subdirectories, which in total are at just over 6GB at the moment.
>
>
> Any thoughts about this?

I have been using the terabithia rpms for several years and can confirm that
most of the data is indeed in /var/lib/xymon.

HTH,

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Tom			me at tdiehl.org