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Date:      Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:51:11 -0800 (PST)
From:      Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
To:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: partition sizes and securelevel questions
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.991221094558.17512D-100000@roble2.roble.com>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBJIOBFAJNKGAGLICJGEMIDOAA.matt@axl.net>

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> I just finished setting up a new mail server, and this is what I ended up
> with:
> /dev/da0s1a    127023    21254    95608    18%    /
> /dev/da0s1e   2032623   726774  1143240    39%    /usr
> /dev/da0s1f   6533601    98938  5911975     2%    /var
> /dev/da1s1e   1016303     5892   929107     1%    /var/log
> /dev/da1s1f   7417626   807885  6016331    12%    /usr/home
> ...
> I wanted the highest performance possible, so I tried to think of things
> that HAVE to happen at the same time tried to arrange things so they affect
> different disks.

This model has 5 partitions on 2 disks.  That's 3 partitions more than
you need.  It's also 3 times more likely to experience a full
partition than a system with only 1 partition per disk.  Perhaps it
would be easier to use symbolic links to maintain /var/log on a
different disk than /var?

--
Roger Marquis
Roble Systems Consulting
http://www.roble.com/



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