Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:46:50 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: costa@inner.cortx.com (Costa) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardrive upgrade Message-ID: <199701141846.LAA09788@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970114101037.17247A-100000@inner.cortx.com> from "Costa" at Jan 14, 97 10:20:17 am
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> I am looking to upgrade my hard space. I have a scsi(2) 1.2 gig right
> now running freebsd 2.1. I am getting a 2 gig scsi hd and i am looking
> to partition both drives so that i get the maximum amount of space for
> /usr.
>
> Should i just add the 2 gig and move /usr to it or is there a better way
> to set it up. I am also looking to upgrade to fbsd 2.1.6. Please
> advise on the best approach for my upgrades.
Do you really need all that space in /usr? You could, for instance,
make two partitions on your new 2 gig disk and put /usr/local on one of
them, and /home on the other. This would free up whatever space are
currently being used by these in /usr *and* give your users home
directories a lot more disk space.
Another thing to keep in mind is getting high-usage files onto separate
disks for performance. For instance, if you have a lot of interactive
users, or do software development, putting the users home directories
on a different disk than /bin, /usr/bin, etc means the system can
better interleave and optimize accesses for program loading with
accesses for reading/writing user files.
A little thinking about which files are frequently used on your system
will reveal helpful patterns. Your usage is probably different from
mine, where I do mostly single-user software development and email
reading. I have my home directory on one disk, the system on the main
disk, and /usr/local and the CVS source code database on a third. This
gives me good disk optimization, and puts my working source code files
on two separate disks for safety. ;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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