Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 21:19:59 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server with largish disks Message-ID: <A01DFDEC-A882-11D8-B16C-000393681B06@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <20040518034046.GI14871@ironman.tuckerlabs.com> References: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10405171027370.7218-100000@pop.citytel.net> <20040518034046.GI14871@ironman.tuckerlabs.com>
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On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 10:37:35AM -0700, Keith Woodworth wrote: > One I'd like has 4 x 9gig and 4 x 18gig drives, 2 x 733mhz cpus. > > Only have about 2500+ active mail accounts on this machine but it is > running low on space and we have lots of those accounts being access'd > via > Openwebmail. > > Mail spool is /var/mail > > Question is what would be a good way to partition the drives in the > above > configuration? > > I would like acutally to use 3 x 18 gig drives as /var with the 4th > as the hotspare and the rest of the file systems (/ /usr) on 3 x 9gig > with the 4th as hotspace. You may want to reconsider holding all mail in one directory. My mail system was originally setup that way and researching problems was always quite time consuming. ls tends to be a bit slow in those situations as to a number of other utilities. I have 100 directories of home directories (named 00 through 99). User's home directories are randomly distributed between the directories and mailboxes are stored in the user's home directory.
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