From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 29 15:20:16 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EC5C1065676 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:20:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from samankaya@netscape.net) Received: from imr-da06.mx.aol.com (imr-da06.mx.aol.com [205.188.169.203]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB918FC21 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:20:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from imo-ma01.mx.aol.com (imo-ma01.mx.aol.com [64.12.78.136]) by imr-da06.mx.aol.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id nBTFK0tJ032039 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:20:00 -0500 Received: from samankaya@netscape.net by imo-ma01.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v42.5.) id n.d4f.67eba930 (43995) for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:19:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.2.21] (dsl.dynamic81215233158.ttnet.net.tr [81.215.233.158]) by cia-dd06.mx.aol.com (v127.7) with ESMTP id MAILCIADD064-abdb4b3a1e1b2dd; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:19:57 -0500 Message-ID: <4B3A1E1A.1040506@netscape.net> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:19:54 +0200 From: Kaya Saman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090605 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 (Ubuntu-1.1.17+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4B3927EB.4030802@optiplex-networks.com> <6201873e0912281420n590b173dtac94f9936cca6e3@mail.gmail.com> <4B393463.5060504@netscape.net> <6201873e0912281504j552d6351mf64d8e566d54bcef@mail.gmail.com> <20091229142310.GD90870@Alex1.lan> In-Reply-To: <20091229142310.GD90870@Alex1.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AOL-IP: 81.215.233.158 X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) X-Spam-Flag: NO X-AOL-SENDER: samankaya@netscape.net Subject: Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:20:16 -0000 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 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