Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 23:00:00 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> To: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: slice and partition layouts Message-ID: <20040221230000.036500e6@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <4037C12A.5000805@nbritton.org> References: <4037C12A.5000805@nbritton.org>
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On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 14:35:54 -0600 Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> wrote: > I'm trying to find in depth info about the proper way to layout > drives, slices, partions, filesystems, FHS in unix land, also in > relation to server role types. > > I've read Chapters 2 and 3 from the FreeBSD Handbook and Chapter 16, > from Absolute BSD but they seem to be lacking the detailed info I'm > looking for. > > Basicly I need to know where the heck I put the 25gigs of data thats > on are old NT server on are new FreeBSD server, In windows I'd just > partion a drive in two (Drives C: and D:) C: for for OS and Programs > and D: for Data but in unix the layout is hierarchical and data is > stored all over the place (/home, /usr, /var)? Please take a look at hier(7) (man 7 hier), it might answer some of you questions. No one could give you an exact advice without knowing what that server will do, how often data will change, the average file size, etc. Unix style has some advantages over the windows. For example, I have a database server, on which I have a separate slice for mysql's databases, a somehow big /tmp and "small" slices for / , /usr, /var. You should ask this kind on questions@ providing more information. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user
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