From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 5 12:56:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A07916A4CE for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 12:56:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A96F843D8D for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 12:56:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) j45Cu7JF009493; Thu, 5 May 2005 08:56:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) id j45Cu2rM009492; Thu, 5 May 2005 08:56:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200505051256.j45Cu2rM009492@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd.org@donnacha.com Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 08:56:02 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <427A1187.2050208@donnacha.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How should I divvy up my HDDs? Suggestions Please. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 12:56:08 -0000 > > 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" >