From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 31 18:42:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 192F1151A3 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:42:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA09934; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 12:12:10 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA90609; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 12:12:08 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990401121208.P413@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 12:12:08 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Christopher Palmer , Nocturne Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FS sizes for a small web/mail server? References: <37028D24.2DDD1B34@uswest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Christopher Palmer on Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 07:07:28PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 31 March 1999 at 19:07:28 -0600, Christopher Palmer wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Nocturne wrote: > >> wd0s1a / 40 MB >> wd0s1e /usr 476 MB >> wd2s1b swap 202 MB > > I think this is good. Having swap on a separate disk is a good idea. > > However, one small tweaking: I like having the mail spool and temporary > thingies on a separate file system, in case of overflows, mail bombs, and > the like. ~10MB each, since you said this is going to be a low-volume > server. (On a mail server, of course I'd crank /var up.) You apparently missed the beginning of this thread. I strongly discouraged (and discourage) the use of small additional file systems. You're bound to find that you fill one up and have space left over in another, and before you know it you're going to end up with a symlink jungle. Sure, your concern is valid, but that's what we have quotas for. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message