From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 1 21:41:33 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2F44106566B for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 21:41:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from samankaya@netscape.net) Received: from imr-ma04.mx.aol.com (imr-ma04.mx.aol.com [64.12.206.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D9868FC14 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 21:41:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from imo-ma03.mx.aol.com (imo-ma03.mx.aol.com [64.12.78.138]) by imr-ma04.mx.aol.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o01LfAEW021824; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 16:41:10 -0500 Received: from samankaya@netscape.net by imo-ma03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v42.5.) id d.c31.6e3036c2 (56034); Fri, 1 Jan 2010 16:41:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.2.21] (dsl.dynamic8121523916.ttnet.net.tr [81.215.239.16]) by cia-md08.mx.aol.com (v127.7) with ESMTP id MAILCIAMD088-dae24b3e6bf013; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:41:06 -0500 Message-ID: <4B3E6BF0.3020900@netscape.net> Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:41:04 +0200 From: Kaya Saman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090605 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 (Ubuntu-1.1.17+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Smith References: <4B393463.5060504@netscape.net> <6201873e0912281504j552d6351mf64d8e566d54bcef@mail.gmail.com> <20091229142310.GD90870@Alex1.lan> <4B3A1E1A.1040506@netscape.net> <20091229162711.GA38738@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> <4B3A3045.3050907@netscape.net> <20091229173139.GA33613@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4B3A5321.3070709@netscape.net> <20091229223132.GA59169@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4B3A86B0.8050607@netscape.net> <20091229234444.GA60411@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20091229234444.GA60411@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AOL-IP: 81.215.239.16 X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) X-Spam-Flag: NO X-AOL-SENDER: samankaya@netscape.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:41:33 -0000 Hi Roland, many thanks for the response!!! :-) I waited until I had a test server setup and at least now I do...... In fact I think from my usage perspective FreeBSD is not that difficult to understand!!! I now have a test machine setup which I built nano and Bind 9.6.1 from the ports collection and I have ntp and nfs setup too. I am currently wondering what to do about the disk space as nothing is used: test# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 34G 1.2G 30G 4% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /var/named/dev If I create separate partitions for /var /usr and /tmp I am sure that I won't need that much unless I have a totally dynamic file system which will grow over time. But with minimal usage just to transfer the off file but mainly read files from as now the users are going down to 1 machine (just me) so I think with 2GB I can probably get away with it for each filesystem??? What do you say? Many thanks to everyone else that responded to this thread/post all your help and advice has been much appreciated! Regards, Kaya P.s. The good part with this is that I'm only using 23MB or memory too which is incredible considering that Linux or Solaris would take so much more. This is kinda cool......