Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:27:59 +0200 From: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: Desmond Coughlan <coughlandesmond@yahoo.fr> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RE : Re: problem installing on i386 Message-ID: <4519550F.70206@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <20060926160445.77318.qmail@web27215.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <20060926160445.77318.qmail@web27215.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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Desmond Coughlan wrote: > So on the second disk drive, which is around.. 20GB, IIRC, we want /mail, /sql and /forums, and maybe 512M of swap. On the first, system files etc. and swap. I used to tinker around with postgreSQL, so that'll be what we'll be using. > > How does that sound? 1) You will find maintenance easier if you stick to default location for storing stuff, so mount your partitions on those mountpoints: By default user's mboxes goes in /var/mail, databases in /var/db. 2) You might then consider making your second disk dedicated to /var entirely rather than fragment in multiple partitions. 3) I recall on your original list you had swap on both disks, this may or may not have any impact on performance compared to just one swap on the first disk. I would do something like this: ad0s1: / 128MB swap 512MB /usr 6144MB /tmp 512MB ad1s1: /home 4092MB /share 4092MB /var 4092MB The /share is non-default, I like to have this for groups. Say your organisation have various working groups, files belonging to those should not reside in users home-dir, but rather be shared among all members. The above has some further advantages: on the second disk is all the data users create, you can wipe ad0 in a reinstall if needed, there you only need to restore config-files in /etc and /usr/local/etc. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9
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