From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 16:01:00 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 DE4A916A4CE for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 16:00:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51F5643D8F for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 16:00:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) j4BG0wJF009138; Wed, 11 May 2005 12:00:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) id j4BG0vTA009137; Wed, 11 May 2005 12:00:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200505111600.j4BG0vTA009137@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd.org@donnacha.com Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 12:00:57 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <42822285.9050402@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: I need further HDD advice before submitting order. 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: Wed, 11 May 2005 16:01:00 -0000 > > Hi again, > > I posted a question here last week, asking for advice on how I should > ask my datacenter to divide up the HDDs in my new server. Thank you to > everyone who responded. > > I have tried to understand all the advice given and, since then, have > tried to get myself up to speed by reading the relevant sections in The > Complete FreeBSD, FreeBSD Unleashed, Absolute BSD and Teach Yourself > FreeBSD in 24 Hours (it didn't). > > I understand a little more than I did but am still unsure as to how I > should divide the HDDs and would very much appreciate reactions to my > current proposal. > > ---------- > > Server purpose: Initially just forums, later sundry other Web apps i.e. > ecommerce, ticket bookings etc. Will possibly become a heavy-duty email > server at some stage. > > 2GB RAM > > 80GB HDD IDE: > / = 1GB > /usr = 15GB > /local = 15GB > Swap = 4GB > Unallocated = 40GB > > 200GB HDD IDE: > > /tmp = 2GB (is that enough?) > /home = 28GB > /var = 100GB (will inclube the forum databases etc) > Unallocated = 70GB > > I'll be asking them to put the both disks in dangerously dedicated mode, > with each on a different IDE bus. > > > ---------- > > Is it a good idea leaving so much unallocated space? My research > suggests that this may be useful for moving directories around or giving > specific subdirectories their own partition at a later date when I have > a better idea of usage, does that sound right? Make a file system out of the 'unallocated' space now even if you don't decide on a mount point or use until later. I don't know what you expect to put in all that /usr space if you also have a /home and a /local (which would be /usr/local in reality). But, there is no harm. That should be plenty for /tmp > The only problem about creating partitions at a later date is that I > will have command line access only, I'm not even sure if I can create > partitions at a later date, I think that for sysinstall I might actually > have to be there. Can anyone advise me on this? > > Swap: As the second disk will have the presumably quite busy /tmp and > /var, placing all the swap on this the first disk, rather than shared > between both, could help to balance the load a bit (thanks to Henry > Miller for that suggestion). With 2GB of RAM, I'm hoping the Swap won't > be needed very often anyway; if it is, I may simply add more memory. The system uses swap space for its business regardless of how much ram you have - even if it is not forced to swap to have enough space. It uses it for paging as well as swap too. ////jerry > I decided not to use GPT because, although it sounds great, it seems a > little complicated for a newbie like me. > > Apologies for seeking your help once again, I just need to get this > straight before submitting the order, I would be very grateful for any > and all advice. > > Thanks, > > 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" >