From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 14 10:47:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA29091 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 10:47:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA29086 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 10:47:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.4/8.7.5) id LAA09788; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:46:50 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199701141846.LAA09788@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: hardrive upgrade To: costa@inner.cortx.com (Costa) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:46:50 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Costa" at Jan 14, 97 10:20:17 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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