From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Sep 8 21:33:01 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3AF0A00929 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 2015 21:33:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pathiaki2@yahoo.com) Received: from nm22-vm1.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm22-vm1.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.212.127]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A8A5B12A1 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 2015 21:33:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pathiaki2@yahoo.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s2048; t=1441747978; bh=Z/oh/rgmFg0VtEKVFCx5/QCzS+tyNIWYoDV9wHJakxg=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From:Subject; b=MpIzOS8+EhNSUH3njbPpCkHpd5Psgu9xwdb6u5BhK2YoFgeGv1symARqeycNWdrGjf/INdfD/q2JqQhmuDkn7zSileSpndPfeurJ9rLItlXJk6EuaKIu2lLd3XW/PVU7XVkT1/BMvhgA7BBZwtTiiVTykSqQ727eP4K9zecm9QJAp08WngSbDsDST1Gkpk9n5fYuihuJ3Sysut9BKX0YzCFaBmDVC3L8H3QZvt+QjTue3BDiTmeqxOh8bZpF58m7mVpB6vPyIdeKUk7XRvSNg9itgbWd/+0ozLCGUp9jQ+bu5WxerBNewvm8TEooIHyn2s9n5Y4b1PkrsIMFiFr/cw== Received: from [98.139.215.142] by nm22.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 08 Sep 2015 21:32:58 -0000 Received: from [98.139.211.207] by tm13.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 08 Sep 2015 21:32:58 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp216.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 08 Sep 2015 21:32:58 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 295827.84489.bm@smtp216.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: grOJUXsVM1lMSyCzg08uGVkBQc0zaRJnCQP2A1Xfi_rrWw2 lJHuR2CYCUmfmTsd5NPmyHa.scE1CzA6hHT0cTLWBsSZ.CRKibAnPAVk5Vev d4ueA8uGZO9dqDuZ.efDhflRIKLbJGdwcWRHSA73URvlUUQ9W_kIItRtY99A hdaqZ7IqtBDxceEsZpFNZ_OU47YHir_kxQa0FVrMs6aETnx09.pvo5en2lyd fGVnmF4XJ9SCnC7CQJOBfaI5__20GZViyk.Qvoaf5N2r.acQxlu.THvMzrao Kmd.suZt8YPEeaO0N6O8uil7Bl3I.5OISEiwWFaiB5JfaObLLgRl8tdZ9MRs P016eQLrf.ljVOJsfgSBIO31Sz88UFVkuh4U1.kot1gmA2IR4g0ugQ8Sbk7i WLf3zhbEBjvlRy6wFlYSVIrw1qEMW2S9i3vx5xA5ejyHPShDb4ZIE17FrGiK nTYa395M4uQ2M8yUSl.kmCMGLV_kHJLGNPmYkSXgTGvwwhf0tzoSXfBIY4B2 9hvt82292NZfDylvP2LHzjUTUalFuPL9YWg-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: h3Xqg6.swBC0yI913RMMwp94grO_cg-- Subject: Re: Storage question To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <55EF3D23.5060009@hiwaay.net> <20150908220639.20412cbd@gumby.homeunix.com> From: Paul Pathiakis Message-ID: <55EF5409.8020007@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 17:32:57 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150908220639.20412cbd@gumby.homeunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2015 21:33:01 -0000 Just curious, why not ZFS? It is extremely stable and then you don't have to worry about properly sizing but you can limit the size of a parition from growing out of control. Due to the pooling, you have access to all your storage on the drive to all the partitions. P. On 09/08/2015 17:06, RW via freebsd-questions wrote: > On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 15:00:45 -0453.75 > William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > >> >> I am prepping to bring 2 new FreeBSD 9.3R boxen online. I am trying >> to figure out how large to make root & usr partitions to make most >> effective use of storage. To that end, I did the following: >> >> >> find / -xdev -maxdepth 3 -type f -exec ls -lSrF {} + > It's easier to see the usage if you use: > > du -xhd1 / > > and then work down. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"