Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 00:57:41 +0100 From: ian j hart <ianjhart@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: partition sizes vinum and ccd Message-ID: <39691175.1B657EC2@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk>
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Hello all. Background: I am the technician at a school in the UK. I have to provide web browsing and email services before the start of the next academic year. I figured I'd break it down into two parts. Build a local server. Test during the first term while I build a firewall. Cross fingers and hope it works. Hardware: This is what I have to work with. No discussion required here, the budget is spent. AMD K6II-500 2x 18Gb SCSI hard disks 256Mb RAM. SCSI CDRW Some other stuff... Software: (suggestions?) Apache imap-uw (if fixed) or qpopper? fetchmail or SMTP forward on the firewall What I need to know is how best to partition the disks. I have no idea how big the partitions need to be as there is no existing server. Load will be maximum 150 Win95 clients, 1500 users. What combination of vinum,ccd and swap will give me best safety/performance? I've not used vinum before but as it's a new machine I can always format and use *normal* partitions if it fries my brain. The machine will double as cvs repository/buildserver off peak. I recon that's 7Gb /usr plus 1Gb if I build release. The CDRW will need chunks of 650Mb for spooling file server(NT) backups. Then web space and mail for each user. I hope someone can help. Even a df from a similar system would be better than nothing. TIA -- ian j hart ICT Technician Cardinal Newman Catholic School And Community College To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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