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Subject: How should I divvy up my HDDs?  Suggestions Please.
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Hello, I'm new to FreeBSD and this list, my name is Donnacha, I'm an 
Irishman living in Edinburgh, Scotland.

I have read The Complete FreeBSD's section on disk partioning but would 
very much appreciate some advice on how to divide up the 2 HDDs I'm 
getting on my new server.

The server is located in a facility in the US and will be used as a Web 
and email server.  It has an 80GB HDD and a 200GB HDD, both IDE but I'm 
asking for them to be placed on seperate buses.

I was thinking of using the 80GB as the primary and placing / on it, 
while putting /var, /usr and /home on the 200GB.

I'll have 2GB of RAM, so, I was thinking about putting 2GB of swap on 
each HDD.

How does that sound.  I would be very grateful for any advice you can 
give me before I relay my instructions to the guys doing the installation.

Thanks and I look forward to participating in this community,

Donnacha