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Subject: Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance
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Hi,

On Tuesday 15 March 2011 07:00:30 freebsd_user@guice.ath.cx wrote:
> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>=20
> Guidance with the following:
>=20
> We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI compliant
> devices.  With that said, we have our atapi/33 optical on a add in
> controller (PCI) and are seeking to place four HDD=92s on the main boards
> controllers.  Our dilemma is where to place /, /tmp, /usr and /var from a
> performance standpoint.  We understand that /var  does quite a bit of
> writing and probably should go on the master hdd, but what about the /usr,
> /tmp and root?  Hell, I=92m not sure my thinking is sane as to where I
> =91think=92 /var should be placed/mounted.
>=20
did I get it right? You have four hard disks?

If so, place /, /var /tmp on indiidual drives. Make the fourth disk usr and=
 mount the remaining space of the other three disks inside /usr/home.

Locate then stuff on the other three disks which you expect to be used in p=
arallel with the /usr disk.

Of course, you can mount it anywhere else if you want.

Erich