From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 22 08:11:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA05089 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 08:11:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dove.peace.com.my (peace.com.my [202.184.153.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA05050 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 08:11:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from panda@peace.com.my) Received: from lovebox (love.com.my [202.184.153.17]) by dove.peace.com.my (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA22184 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 22:52:31 +0800 (SGT) Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 22:52:31 +0800 (SGT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19980522231438.00969b40@peace.com.my> X-Sender: panda@peace.com.my X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: chas Subject: adding 25GB as single partition ok ? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have just inherited a 25GB 3-disk RAID for a FreeBSD mailserver which already has 4GB configured as follows : [current config] / 100 MB /usr 3600 MB /var -> /usr/var /swap 500 MB since the additional 25GB will be used for users' mail, is there any recommended way to split it or should I just make it one big /data partition symlink /var to it as follows : [proposed config] ie. / 100 MB /usr 3600 MB /var -> /data/var /swap 500 MB /data 25000 MB Just like the school of thought that places /var on /usr/var since disk usage is unpredictable, I figured that it's less troublesome and more efficient (in terms of usage) to put everyone and everything on one big 25GB slice. Does this sound reasonable ? Any caveats to beware of ? thank you in advance, chas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message