Novell Doc: Novell Filr 1.0.1 Planning and Deployment Best Practices Guide - Appliance Disks and What They Store

3.3 Appliance Disks and What They Store

Table 3-2 summarizes the different appliance storage locations in a large, Filr-clustered deployment.

Table 3-2 Appliance Storage

Boot Partition (Hard Disk 1)	VM Hard Disk 2	Remote NFS-based Storage
Mount Point: / Recommended Size: 100 GB of disk space Required on: Filr, Filr Search, and MySQL appliances Purpose: Stores the following: All of the binary, configuration, and other files required for the operating system to run appliance services Log files Because log files are continually growing and can consume large amounts of disk space, you should regularly delete old log files.	Mount Point: /vastorage Recommended Size: 25 GB of disk space Required on: Filr, Filr Search, and MySQL appliances Purpose: Stores the following: Configuration files that are used for appliance upgrades Ganglia files that are used to store monitoring information	Mount Point: /vashare Recommended Size: Equal to the size of all files in the Personal Storage (My Files area), plus storage of HTML renderings and text extractions Required on: Filr appliances in large, Filr-clustered deployments Purpose: Stores the following: Personal Storage files in My Files Temporary files Cached HTML renderings Because cached files are not automatically deleted, you should regularly clean up the /vashare/cachefilestore area.