From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Dec 17 1:26:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.toplink.net (mail.toplink.net [195.2.171.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74A7D14DEE for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 01:26:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ck@toplink.net) Received: from babylon.toplink.net (babylon.toplink.net [195.2.171.90]) by mail.toplink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA10691; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:26:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (ck@localhost) by babylon.toplink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA83185; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:23:15 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:23:15 +0100 (CET) From: Christian Kratzer To: up@3.am Cc: Sue Blake , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: partition sizes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-NCC-RegID: de.toplink X-Spammer-Kill-Ratio: 75% X-Jihad: Will hunt down all cases of Spam and Net abuse. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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