Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 03:14:18 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Samba] Re: Samba public directory on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20040924011418.GB784@alex.lan> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20040923180854.1024b770@209.152.117.178> References: <200409231926.i8NJQoh16871@yoda.pixi.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20040923180854.1024b770@209.152.117.178>
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> Thanks for the info. > > In 'The Complete FreeBSD' (4th edition), on page 70: "Use the rest > of the space on disk for a /home file system, as long as it's > possible to back it up on a single tape. Otherwise, make multiple file > systems. /home is the normal directory for user files." > > In the online handbook, > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html, > Table 2-2: "/usr Rest of disk All your other files will typically be stored in /usr and its subdirectories." > > Alrighty, then. I am confused. On the 3 boxes that I just installed > FreeBSD 4.9 on, none of them even have a /home or a /usr/home directory. > So, there certainly isn't a /home partition. Is /home created as its > own slice in 5.x? No, do a 'll -d /home' and it show you have you're home dictory is. Mine (5.2) is in /usr/home (the default). I usaly skip the cration of /tmp and create a /disk/ and have this kind of stuff there. (web, ftp, samba, temp (tmp, ports-work, ports-dist, obj), ect). I name it disk so that it feels more natural when I discover I need antoher thing on it. > These boxes have 80 GB hard drives and have the majority of that > capacity contained in /usr. > > Based on all this advice and research, I think I will create a new > directory under /usr called /home. Under this, I'll create > /samba/public (full path: /usr/home/samba/public). > > Any objections, or comments? Be sure to check with du -sh /usr how much you use. I have X and everything else and need at least 3.7G (of course I do not have the distfiles and obj directories on that. And have doubled this to a total of 8.2G for future grouwth. You can set a qouta for disk useage. This is native in FreeBSD (may need to compile a special kernel) and there is also a opion in Samba. I never used the latter, Also you could be able to mount /usr by NFS of a other box while you change sizes. This way you have acces to tools like vi and such. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
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