Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 11:12:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Max Clark <max.clark@emind.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Raid-1 Mirroring of boot disk using vinum? Message-ID: <20000609111215.I86855@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <NDBBKADCBNHKPHCMNPGFEEOKDEAA.max.clark@emind.com> References: <394010D6.53D274C3@intercom.com> <NDBBKADCBNHKPHCMNPGFEEOKDEAA.max.clark@emind.com>
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On Thursday, 8 June 2000 at 15:07:17 -0700, Max Clark wrote:
> This hardware mirroring thing has gotten way out of control...
>
> New question - I have a single processor server with two 10K RPM
> 18GB hard drives. This machine will take over e-mail duties from an
> old P1 4GB machine. Given that I will be running FreeBSD,
> qmail-1.03, POP3 (no IMAP), and maybe Apache what would be the best
> partition configuration.
>
> We are currently serving 15,000 e-mails a day and the company is growing.
>
> I was thinking something like this:
>
> Disk 1 -
> / 500MB
> swap 256 MB
> /var 500MB
> /usr ~16GB
>
> Disk 2 -
> /home 18GB
Why? Most of your email is going to go into the /var partition, which
is far too small. Your root file system is at least ten times the
size it needs to be. And what are you going to put in /usr and /home?
My current tendency is not to have a separate /usr file system, since
it's relatively easy to predict the size of /usr, and it's convenient
to have it available in single user mode. If you omit /usr
(i.e. leave it on the root file system), you might do reasonably well
with:
Disk 1 -
/ 500MB
swap 512 MB
/home ~17GB
Disk 2 -
/var 18GB
Greg
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