From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 14 9:15:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from suid.innerx.net (suid.innerx.net [65.205.142.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 879CE37B407 for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 09:15:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ccole@innerx.net) Received: from leap.innerx.net (leap.innerx.net [65.205.142.25]) by suid.innerx.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80A2010E292 for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:11:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cliff (cliff.innerx.net [65.205.142.100]) by leap.innerx.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FD93388385 for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:55:31 +0000 (/etc/localtime) Message-ID: <010b01c124dc$698910c0$01000001@cliff> From: "Cliff Cole" To: Subject: Partitioning Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:16:02 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 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 Hello, This is probably a very simple question but I want to basically see everyone's thoughts about partitioning. I want to know what the best way to partition a drive and how many drives to use so it will be fast as possible using as least as possible is I/O. I've read having a second harddrive for your /var partition because it is being written to is a good idea. Would it be good to have 2 or more hard drives to make the server faster? I am wanting to setup a email server and in the past I have had problems with using to much disk I/O. Any advise is greatly appreciated Thanks, Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message