Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:23:15 +0100 (CET) From: Christian Kratzer <ck@toplink.net> To: up@3.am Cc: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: partition sizes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912171016490.82621-100000@babylon.toplink.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912152253060.95202-100000@richard2.pil.net>
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Hi, ok here's our twist to the partitioning games a 100MB / b 256MB swap c d e 500MB /usr # mounted ro f 1000MB /var g 9999MB /u1 # all the rest goes here complemented with following.... mkdir /u1/local ln -s /u1/local /usr/local mkdir /u1/home ln -s /u1/home /home mkdir /u1/www ln -s /u1/ww /www rmdir /tmp ln -s /var/tmp /tmp a full install fits nicely into the 500mb /usr and we don't have to add /usr to our backups as /usr/local and everything else lives on /u1 Additional disks are partitioned as /u2, /u3 etc... We then run symlinks all over the place. Scales nicely... Add more /var for a busy mailserver etc.... 1Gig /var is what we do for default even on workstations. Stuff like printjobs, system logfiles etc... all need lots of spare in /var and /var/tmp If you do a lot of kernel builds I would recommend relocating /usr/src etc... to /u1 also. Greetings Christian On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 up@3.am wrote: > > for the mail server, I'd go: > > 500MB / > 1.5GB /usr > 4GB /var (put half of that in /home if you're using qmail) > 2GB /home > > For the web server (assuming customer sites are in ~): > > 500MB / > 2.5GB /usr > 1GB /var > 4GB /home > > There are sooo many variables, of course...where are the customer web logs > going to be? etc..) > > On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Sue Blake wrote: > > > I'm rebuilding an ancient ISP server as two new FreeBSD servers, basically > > separating mail from the web/shell machine. > > > > Where there was two gigabytes to play with before (for the OS, swap, > > logs, ...), I find myself staring at about 8 on the new drives, and > > wondering how to make partitioning decisions that will still look > > resonable some time down the track. (The data drives will be brought > > across from the old system.) > > > > Apart from examining how the present system copes, is there something I > > should be reading, or is it just a matter of experience, or are all ISP > > systems started from best guesses and growed like Topsy? :-) > > > > -- > > > > Regards, > > -*Sue*- > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > > James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor > up@3.am http://3.am > ========================================================================= > ISPF 3 - The Forum for ISPs by ISPs(tm) || Nov 15-17, 1999, New Orleans > 3 days of clues, news, and views from the industry's best and brightest. > Visit <http://www.ispf.com/>; for information and registration. > ========================================================================= > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > -- TopLink Internet Services GmbH ck@171.2.195.in-addr.arpa Christian Kratzer http://www.toplink.net/ Phone: +49 7032 2701-0 Fax: +49 7032 2701-19 FreeBSD spoken here! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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