Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:50:44 -0500 From: Nicolas Blais <nb_root@videotron.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Kiffin Gish <kiffin@gish.demon.nl> Subject: Re: How to access filesystem on 2nd disk ... Message-ID: <200511220950.51825.nb_root@videotron.ca> In-Reply-To: <1132670486.707.15.camel@localhost> References: <1132670486.707.15.camel@localhost>
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--nextPart8134504.qQ2FaFrBoe Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On November 22, 2005 09:41 am, Kiffin Gish wrote: > I installed freeBSD 5.4 on a system with two hard disks, which I plan to > use as a dedicated fileserver, and following the default sysinstall > setup I have this: > > root@fileserver# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 248M 35M 193M 15% / > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev > /dev/ad0s1e 248M 12K 228M 0% /tmp > /dev/ad0s1f 35G 573M 31G 2% /usr > /dev/ad0s1d 248M 1.4M 226M 1% /var > > I have three questions: > > 1/ What's the best way to partition my second 20MB hard disk? > I'll assume you meant 20gb. The best partition is the one that is the most= =20 useful for you. I don't like having partitions above 100gb, and that's a=20 personal preference. I'd use the whole 20gb. =20 > 2/ Should I dedicate the whole thing to one mount point, say > called /extra? > If you do decide to use it all, you won't have a choice but to have one har= d=20 mount point. Based on what my drives are used for, I will put it in=20 different places. Ex: my backup drive resides in /mnt/backup. My public share drive resides= =20 in /usr/local/public_share. Again, theses are not standards but what I'm most comfortable with. > 3/ Do I also need swap space on the 2nd drive? > Not if you don't need it. > Thanks alot in advance as usual. No prob, Nicolas. =2D-=20 =46reeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sat Nov 19 12:36:29 EST 2005 =20 root@clk01a:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CLK01A=20 PGP? (updated 16 Nov 05) : http://www.clkroot.net/security/nb_root.asc --nextPart8134504.qQ2FaFrBoe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDgzBL4wTBlvcsbJURAjjwAJ9kPGpJus6gW59l5jkf8AKKm8ZTDgCfVwir 8YUjqe+cJ3nQQndv7xAjicM= =v6k6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart8134504.qQ2FaFrBoe--
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