Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 08:56:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd.org@donnacha.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How should I divvy up my HDDs? Suggestions Please. Message-ID: <200505051256.j45Cu2rM009492@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <427A1187.2050208@donnacha.com>
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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. It depends a lot on what you leave in /usr and /var and /home. It kind of looks like you will leave the 80GB drive mostly empty the way you are doing things. If all your accounts and web pages are really in /home and you have no databases, I would be inclined to put both /usr and /var in the 80GB drive and leave the other one for home directories and web pages. Since the default place for databases is in /var that can make a big difference on where you put it or if you take the db directory out of /var and put it somewhere else, etc. Putting some of your swap on each drive as you have indicated is a good idea. ////jerry > > Thanks and I look forward to participating in this community, > > Donnacha > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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