From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 21 13:47:26 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 9427216A4CE for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:47:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 761DE43D1D for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:47:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from dsc01-chc-il-209-109-240-129.rasserver.net ([209.109.240.129] helo=nbritton.org) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1Auey5-0003h9-00 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:47:25 -0800 Message-ID: <4037D1E8.1010100@nbritton.org> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 15:47:20 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <4037C12A.5000805@nbritton.org> <20040221230000.036500e6@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <20040221230000.036500e6@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 21:47:26 -0000 Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: >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. > Thanks will do. > >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. > General Purpose for a small company, Primary: SMB File server, intranet (Groupware, CRM) Secondary: Tasks related to primary, RDBMS, Email (IMAP), LDAP, etc. The bulk of that 20~25gigs of data is file server related. Disk Subsystem: 40GB Hardware RAID 1 (IDE), I also have 3 10GB/10k RPM, UW SCSI Drives for it but am not planning on using them (no room in server). Server: IBM Netfinity 3500, 333Mhz X2 (SMP), 512MB RAM > >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. > ok, but this is newbie related, is it not? > > > >