From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 13 14:10:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from root.ucsc.edu (root.ucsc.edu [128.114.129.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6DF437B409 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:10:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from booloo@root.ucsc.edu) Received: (from booloo@localhost) by root.ucsc.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f5DLA7708646; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:10:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from booloo) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:10:07 -0700 From: Mark Boolootian To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Partioning recommendations for server with a lot of disk Message-ID: <20010613141007.A8492@root.ucsc.edu> Reply-To: booloo@cats.ucsc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Folks, I've got a server which is used primarily for monitoring network utilization. The box produces lots and lots of graphs using RRDTOOL and NRG and is generally I/O bound (at least, the old server was - hopefully the new box won't have that problem). What I've got is effectively a 50 GB disk (RAID 0 over three 18 GB disks) which I need to partition. Most the servers I've deployed over the past couple of years I've built with just swap and /, and I really like the simplicity of that. Perhaps I suffer some increased exposure to the consequences of disk errors in this configuration, but the tradeoff with never having to worry about a partition filling (before a disk fills) has, to date, paid off. However, with 50GB, I'm feeling less comfortable with the big / and nothing else. Can anyone offer advice as to why I might prefer multiple partitions instead of one big one (or vice-versa)? I saw Greg Lehey's email from last December in which he says the new version of his book will recommend swap and / for up to 4 GB filesystems. Why cap it at 4 GB? Any responses would be appreciated. I feel like I'm in limbo with this stupid machine because I can't decide on the partitioning... mb p.s. I'm not subscribed to freebsd-questions and would appreciate being copied directly on responses (as opposed to reading via the archives). Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message