From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Dec 15 19:59:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from richard2.pil.net (richard2.pil.net [207.8.164.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B78B15368 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:59:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from up@3.am) Received: (qmail 95842 invoked by uid 1825); 16 Dec 1999 03:59:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Dec 1999 03:59:32 -0000 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 22:59:32 -0500 (EST) From: X-Sender: up@richard2.pil.net To: Sue Blake Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: partition sizes In-Reply-To: <19991216140442.B88143@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org for the mail server, I'd go: 500MB / 1.5GB /usr 4GB /var (put half of that in /home if you're using qmail) 2GB /home For the web server (assuming customer sites are in ~): 500MB / 2.5GB /usr 1GB /var 4GB /home There are sooo many variables, of course...where are the customer web logs going to be? etc..) On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Sue Blake wrote: > I'm rebuilding an ancient ISP server as two new FreeBSD servers, basically > separating mail from the web/shell machine. > > Where there was two gigabytes to play with before (for the OS, swap, > logs, ...), I find myself staring at about 8 on the new drives, and > wondering how to make partitioning decisions that will still look > resonable some time down the track. (The data drives will be brought > across from the old system.) > > Apart from examining how the present system copes, is there something I > should be reading, or is it just a matter of experience, or are all ISP > systems started from best guesses and growed like Topsy? :-) > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up@3.am http://3.am ========================================================================= ISPF 3 - The Forum for ISPs by ISPs(tm) || Nov 15-17, 1999, New Orleans 3 days of clues, news, and views from the industry's best and brightest. Visit for information and registration. ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message