From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 17 17:28:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90A9C16A448 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:28:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B087B43D6A for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:28:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2) with ESMTP id j9HHSeBn000681; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:28:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) id j9HHSeA6000680; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:28:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200510171728.j9HHSeA6000680@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org (Lowell Gilbert) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:28:40 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <44mzl844u6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Teo De Las Heras , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Feeback on partitioning 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: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:28:48 -0000 > > Teo De Las Heras writes: > > > I'm getting ready to set up a single system as a mail, print, web, and file > > server. I may be installing other applications but nothing as intense as > > Xorg. If at all, I'll probably just install some network monitoring tools. > > I'm placing all of these roles on a single system because it is only for my > > lab. I have a 160 GB to use and I'm thinking about laying out the partitions > > as follows: > > Part Size > > / 10G - for both the / and /usr files > > (swap) 2G > > /var 10G - Web server, print spool, other log files?? > > /var/mail 10G - for all mail files and easy backup > > /home 50G - for all user files > > /home/teo 40G - For my files and easy backup > > *The rest of the space I'll leave unused in case I need to grow a partition > > I'm new to FreeBSD/*Nix so all criticism is welcome. You can only grow a partition if there is empty space contiguous with that partition. So, rather than leave chunks of empty space between each partition just in case, I would just make one large partition at the end and then move things that get too big there and symlink them. The major considerations with partition size are a small root to make it easier for recoveries if there is a problem and to increase the probability of being able to do a minimal (single user) boot if there are problems, enough swap space, keeping things that might grow uncontrollably isolated from critical stuff such as root and nowdays, /usr and the final one is breaking things up in to chunks that suit your backup scheme/media. ////jerry > > It should work fine. > Make sure your backup scheme will work with it. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >