Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 23:35:43 +0100 (BST) From: Nik Clayton <Nik.Clayton@brunel.ac.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Setting up partitions Message-ID: <4170.9506232235@ccws-20.brunel.ac.uk>
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Apologies if this is considered a generic Unix question, but: I'm about (in the next week or so) to set up a FreeBSD box. A Pentium with 16Mb RAM and initially 1Gb of SCSI HD. It's going to be running (at the moment) as low loaded HTTP/FTP/GOPHER server, supporting about 30 users (although only ever 2 or 3 at any one time). However, within the next four months it should become a major WWW server, needing to support upwards of 10,000 hits a day. At this point i'll be upgrading the memory to at least 32Mb, and probably adding extra disk partitions. Has anyone got any pointers to a 'good' partitioning scheme for this? I was planning on roughly 25Mb for '/', at least 64Mb for 'swap', 150Mb for '/home' and the rest for '/usr' (maybe subdividing '/usr' and '/usr/src' into two seperate partitions. How easy is it to change the slice information once a disk has got info on it? If, say, I wanted to increase the swap space from 64 to 128? Or do I have to back everything up, re-slice and then restore? Cheers for any assistance, N =-[Opinion, n: See the above text for an example]=-=[Kibo #: e]-[RYRYRY]=-= =-[The Silly Sod Society: To perfect and to swerve]=-[beable]-=[TP U BG]=-= Perfect day for scrubbing the floor and other exciting things.
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