From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 21 12:58:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D793C16A4CE for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 12:58:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from rdsnet.ro (unknown [62.231.74.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E371043D2D for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 12:58:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from itetcu@apropo.ro) Received: (qmail 13295 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2004 20:58:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro) (81.196.25.19) by mail.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 21 Feb 2004 20:58:13 -0000 Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (localhost.buh.cameradicommercio.ro [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with SMTP id 1091219E; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 23:00:01 +0200 (EET) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 23:00:00 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Nikolas Britton Message-Id: <20040221230000.036500e6@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <4037C12A.5000805@nbritton.org> References: <4037C12A.5000805@nbritton.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.9claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: slice and partition layouts X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 20:58:16 -0000 On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 14:35:54 -0600 Nikolas Britton 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