From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 6 14:40:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 738BC106564A for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 14:40:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [IPv6:2001:470:a80a:1:21f:d0ff:fe22:b8a8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F6B8FC0A for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 14:40:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A96FF22A18; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 09:40:05 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at honeypot.net Received: from kanga.honeypot.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kanga.honeypot.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id PQoWDO9DY8zy; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 09:40:03 -0500 (CDT) Received: from roo.honeypot.net (wlan2-104.honeypot.net [10.0.7.104]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D772622A08; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 09:40:03 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4A2A7FC2.5060505@strauser.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:40:02 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090409) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jn07texas@yahoo.de References: <56942.76.25.231.251.1244295367.squirrel@webmail.wcubed.net> In-Reply-To: <56942.76.25.231.251.1244295367.squirrel@webmail.wcubed.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck on 1.5TB drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:40:06 -0000 John Nielsen. wrote: > I just installed 7.2 on a 1.5TB RAID 5. I'm using about 10GB for the > system and swap, and the rest for a single large partition to be used for > backups. As of right now, the single partition, /bkup, is empty. Some will disagree, but this almost screams for ZFS: no fsck, great RAID support, and nearly instant snapshots. You should check into it. -- Kirk Strauser