Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 12:48:12 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: chas <panda@peace.com.my>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding 25GB as single partition ok ? Message-ID: <19980525124812.W15604@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980522231438.00969b40@peace.com.my>; from chas on Fri, May 22, 1998 at 10:52:31PM %2B0800 References: <3.0.32.19980522231438.00969b40@peace.com.my>
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On Fri, 22 May 1998 at 22:52:31 +0800, chas wrote: > 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 ? Under the circumstances, yes. If I were installing freshly, I might have made the /usr file system the full 29 GB. > Any caveats to beware of ? If you have a crash (you can't, right? It's RAID, right? Oh well), you'll probably run into trouble with fsck. I believe the best solution there is to mount the swap before continuing. Let me know if you have any problems--I'd be quite interested in this. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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