Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:24:03 +0200 From: Jos Chrispijn <kernel@webrz.net> To: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD9 - Fresh install (2) Message-ID: <507BC823.9060606@webrz.net> In-Reply-To: <201210142129.24479.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> References: <5079ABFA.8050607@webrz.net> <20121013210513.80676821.freebsd@edvax.de> <507AFEEC.2030609@webrz.net> <201210142129.24479.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Mike Clarke: > My approach would be to go for 3 slices. Slice 1 would be a suitable size to > hold the OS and swap, I have quite a lot of ports installed on my desktop PC > so would go for about 20 to 30 GB. This could be less for a server but with > 1TB you can afford to be generous. This can then be partitioned to suit with > whatever combinations of /, /usr, /usr/local, /var. /tmp and swap suits your > fancy. Intererestig suggestion. In my opinion overkill, but if I have to use them, I's rather do it good then K-) thanks, Jos Chrispijn > The second slice would be the same size as the first and be left empty for now > as a spare. ok > The third slice, the rest of the disk, would be for all of your data and could > be partitioned (or not) to suit your needs for /home and any other local data > requirements. If there's to be any large mysql databases then I'd put them > here with symlinks from /var where mysql normally expects to find them. > > When you come to upgrade to the next FreeBSD release just install it into the > spare second slice and boot from that instead of the first. If you experience > any serious problems with the upgrade then nothing has been lost and you can > just revert to booting of the first slice until things are sorted out. that sounds goo to me! So I then have to only make that slice bootable and install, right? > The above is all assuming you're using UFS. If you're going to use ZFS then > there are other possibilities like using sysutils/beadm from ports > <http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=175325>; to manage multiple boot > environments in a single partition. Will use the server UFS only, but the /sysutils/beadm makes me curious... thanks for your suggestions, Jos Chrispijn
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?507BC823.9060606>