From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 8:43:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D10FF37B405 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:43:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAKGhfg20985; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:43:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:43:41 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" X-X-Sender: To: Graham Lillico Cc: Subject: Re: Filesystem Sizes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20011120083608.T16958-100000@localhost> X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you X-TO-THE-FBI-CIA-AND-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Graham Lillico wrote: > Hi, > > I'm setting up a File server it contains a 20gb disk which holds all the > system stuff and two 40Gb disks raided together to hold user home > directories, CVS repository, and the /usr/src and /usr/ports stuff so that I > can make them avaliable to all servers via NFS. > > The problem I have is I have no idea what size to make the /usr/ports and > /usr/src filesystems? Does anyone have any idea on a good ideal size I know > that /usr/ports is about 100Mb and that /usr/src is about 280Mb but how big > are they likely to get during kernel compiles etc. I did consider making > the whole disk the /usr filesystem but at 80Gb this seemed a bit excessive. i would suggest making a large /usr, and leaving /usr/ports and /usr/src inside of it. when you're building the world from /usr/src, it drops everything in to /usr/obj/.. which pretty much renders it useless to separate it all out on to a separate filesystem. what you could do, though, is set up a single partition to handle all the build and source code. this can (if set up on different disks) improve the amount of time it takes to do a make world. the next issue, is that /usr/ports stores all the port source code in /usr/ports/distfies. this alone can make /usr/ports bloat in some slightly unimaginable ways. > Also how may filesystem are you limited to per disk? And is vinum a good > option? to the best of my knowledge, there is no upper limit on partitions per disk. i don't care for vinum myself. software RAID isn't going to be as reliable as hardware. vinum just happens to be better than most versions of software RAID. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "if my thought-dreams could be seen.. "they'd probably put my head in a gillotine" -- Bob Dylan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message