From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 17:44:30 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 3212516A4CE for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 17:44:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E545443D58 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 17:44:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 684035EBE; Wed, 11 May 2005 13:44:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 62417-05; Wed, 11 May 2005 13:44:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-53-96.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.53.96]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61ABC5EB7; Wed, 11 May 2005 13:44:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42824476.4090404@mac.com> Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 13:44:22 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd.org@donnacha.com References: <42822285.9050402@donnacha.com> <42823AB1.3050704@mac.com> <42824021.9000108@donnacha.com> In-Reply-To: <42824021.9000108@donnacha.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com 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 17:44:30 -0000 freebsd.org@donnacha.com wrote: > Hi Chuck, thanks for responding. You're welcome. >> ... For what it's worth, I'd rather have two 80GB drives in a RAID-1 >> mirror than have my stuff on two seperate drives, but using software >> RAID like vinum/gvinum, you can still mirror 80GB onto the 200GB >> drive, and have an additional 120 GB of space left over. > > That does sound like a good idea, especially if it's something I can > introduce at a later stage. You bet. Power supplies fail more often than hard drives do, but drive failures with IDE disks are common enough that I prefer to use RAID-1 whenever possible for the boot drive. If needed, add additional storage to handle the space for a database or whatever else is needed for this particular system. >> [ You don't have to do anything about that now, if you do leave an 80 >> GB chunk of space uncommitted on the big disk. ] > > By uncommitted do you mean space that I keep completed unallocated or > can it be space in which, following Jeremy's suggestion, I create a > temporary file system that I keep empty until I learn how to use > vinum/gvinum? It doesn't really matter which. If you're not keeping important data there, you can try both. Just allocate the space in the FDISK partition table, and use newfs directly, if you like, or slice it up using BSD partition table and do something else. -- -Chuck