Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:19:54 +0200 From: Kaya Saman <SamanKaya@netscape.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question Message-ID: <4B3A1E1A.1040506@netscape.net> In-Reply-To: <20091229142310.GD90870@Alex1.lan> References: <4B3927EB.4030802@optiplex-networks.com> <6201873e0912281420n590b173dtac94f9936cca6e3@mail.gmail.com> <4B393463.5060504@netscape.net> <6201873e0912281504j552d6351mf64d8e566d54bcef@mail.gmail.com> <20091229142310.GD90870@Alex1.lan>
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Alex de Kruijff wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 05:04:52PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kaya Saman <SamanKaya@netscape.net> wrote: >> >>> Also if something goes wrong with the filesystem what are the tools to >>> check the drive and repair errors as in Linux I use e2fsck followed by >>> device ID. >>> >> Example after a dirty shutdown: >> >> fsck -y >> > > FreeBSD 7 and up is able to do a lot of this on the background: fsck -yB > > Adding the line 'fsck_y_enable="YES"' to /etc/rc.conf will run fsck -y > if the initial preen fails > Many thanks guys for all the advice!!!! :-) It is really appreciated! Sorry haven't snipped more stuff into this mail but things are a bit hectic here but what I will say is this; in a few hours once the BSD 8 DVD ISO comes in I will attempt an install and have a look at what's what. The server will be constructed first and then I will look at the GUI environment with Vbox. I reckon the proposed disk usage spec from the FreeBSD hand book should suffice though shouldn't it?? With a larger HD I would normally do something like 15 - 25GB / (root) partition and the rest for /home with round 1.5 - 3GB for swap. Now my HD is round 40GB so I will do a minimal install and try to maximize the /home slice! As result only services I will run are DNS, NTP, SAMBA and NFS. I suppose I could get away with something like 2GB for / which would then contain /tmp, /etc, /root, /boot etc..... Only 2 machines will be connected, my uncles Win XP box and my Linux/Solaris system. --Kaya
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