From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 23 10:30:10 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 E271116A4CE for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:30:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBB3243D1F for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:30:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02 ([157.226.230.209]:3092 helo=mvaexch02.acuson.com) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AvKq1-0002HU-5m; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:29:53 -0800 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id <15HGG4V6>; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:21:40 -0800 Received: from dhcp-46-107.acuson.com ([157.226.46.107]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2657.72) id 15H1YQJZ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:20:27 -0800 From: Johnson David To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Organization: Siemens Medical Systems Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:27:52 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <4037C12A.5000805@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <4037C12A.5000805@nbritton.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200402231027.52890.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1AvKq1-0002HU-5m*am2oFbJbk4w* cc: Nikolas Britton 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: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:30:11 -0000 On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:35 pm, Nikolas Britton wrote: > 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)? It basically comes down to user preference and the type of data. For that much data though, served via NFS, I would probably mount the data under /export. This is only personal opinion, and I could very well be trashing some time honored UNIX tradition. So I would also suggest picking up "UNIX System Administration" from O'Reilly. You can, of course, change the mount point in the future. You are not stuck with only one option. David