From: Dinwiddie, Ron (TIFPC) (RDinwid@templeinland.com)
Date: Wed Nov 27 2002 - 17:33:17 EST
I've responded to the group a couple of times, but my responses haven't gone
through - why? don't know. Here's another attempt to get what I've
received back out to the group.
Justin Stringfellow, Gert-Jan Hagenaars, & Nicholas Tang all responded
quickly with some of my own thoughts and beliefs on this:
- it will be very difficult if not impossible to find something like this
documented because of the volatility of file systems (in fact I have some
static file systems running at 100% with no problems)
- monitoring the file systems and doing the "dirty work" i. e. cleaning up
old files, old logs, temp files, etc. and getting users to do likewise is
just common, every day work of the sys admin
- knowing your files systems and the type of data is critical so you can
identify those that will not grow, those that will grow slowly, and those
that may grow quickly
I knew this before - but thanks to them for their confirmations - and let
the IT Director know as well. He still wanted "documented proof".
I just received a response from Doug Otto with a Sun PDF file (link below)
that has some information in it that I may be able to use - THANKS Doug.
http://www.govstor.com/docs/HighGroundWP.pdf
Ron D
-----Original Message-----
From: Dinwiddie, Ron (TIFPC) [mailto:RDinwid@templeinland.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 1:59 PM
To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
Subject: best practices for disk usage percentage
All,
I have been asked by my IT Director to locate a white paper or other
"official" document outlining the "best practices for disk storage
percentage". In other words, what is the "recommended" percentage of usage
before considering purchasing additional storage (disks)? Please don't ask
"Why?" - it's not a pretty story :( I've been searching the internet for
something like this, but have yet to find anything. If anyone has a white
paper, tech paper, etc - or knows where I can get one - I would greatly
appreciate it.
TIA
Ron D
Ron Dinwiddie
UNIX System Administrator
Temple Inland Forest Products Corp. (TIFPC) - Diboll
email: rdinwid@templeinland.com
Office: 936-829-1592 Fax: 936-829-7829
Pager: 936-630-7086 Cell: 210-601-9077
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