Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 14:48:16 -0700 From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> To: Marwan Sultan <dead_line@hotmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: partitioning server with 2 hard drives Message-ID: <CAHu1Y731qgvLbdVF1vrPiZ-9Bx7tXG==TKM88g8DMkp8Bd=qzg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <MWHPR06MB32479D288A8D10AD73FC6A329A200@MWHPR06MB3247.namprd06.prod.outlook.com> References: <MWHPR06MB32479D288A8D10AD73FC6A329A200@MWHPR06MB3247.namprd06.prod.outlook.com>
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 2:35 PM Marwan Sultan <dead_line@hotmail.com> wrote= : > Good day/Evening for all FreeBSDers =F0=9F=99=82 > > I want to install latest FreeBSD for a business server > erver with the following specification. : > Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5 3.5GHz > Hardware RAID Controller 1 GB Cache with BBU > 16 GB DDR4 RAM - Total > 1 TB 7200 SATA > 1 TB 7200 SATA > > I understand its advised to create it in this order and SWAP double (or > triple) of the RAM (is 50 GB ok) ? > / > swap > var > /tmp > /usr > The swap advice is obsolete and deprecated. With only two drives, you'll have to decide whether to RAID1 or not. I'm a firm believer that any world-writable directory ( /tmp, /var/tmp ) should be a separate filesystem w/ rw,noexec,nosuid. I think that an 8GB swap partition on each drive would be more than enough. You can extrapolate from this. --=20 "Well," Brahm=C4=81 said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is = no wiser, but an intelligent person requires only two thousand five hundred." - The Mah=C4=81bh=C4=81rata
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