Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 20:38:56 +0100 From: freebsd.org@donnacha.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu Subject: Re: I need further HDD advice before submitting order. Message-ID: <42825F50.4040007@donnacha.com> In-Reply-To: <42824476.4090404@mac.com> References: <42822285.9050402@donnacha.com> <42823AB1.3050704@mac.com> <42824021.9000108@donnacha.com> <42824476.4090404@mac.com>
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Chuck and Jerry, thank you so much. Chuck - I'm going to take your advice on setting up some kind of mirror, software RAID or whatever, thanks. Jerry - that breakdown of how you would allocate space was amazing - seriously, a better division and a better explanation than anything I've found in the FreeBSD books. The idea of allocating almost the entire 2nd drive to /spill is great, that will give me all the flexibility I need, brilliant! Some > One more thing to think about is the possibility of creating a raid (mirror) > for critical things. That would give you some security in case of a > disk crash. In that case you would need to put your critical stuff > on the smaller drive and carve out an identical size piece on the large > one to be its mirror partner. Check out vinum(8). That, of necessity, > would make your allocation scheme look quite different. Can I provide that space from within /spill i.e. without having to set up a seperate partition, or would I be better off just creating an 80GB partition for that on the 2nd drive, to be named and mounted as soon as I learn enough to implement RAID/mirroring/Vinum? That would leave me with the following: On the 80 GB drive /root 1 GB swap 2.5 GB /tmp 2 GB /usr 5 GB /var 5 GB /home All the rest On the 200 GB drive swap 2.5 GB /mirror Same size as the actual size of the 1st disk, 65GB or whatever. /spill All the rest Does that make sense? I guess that, as my usage grows, I'll be shifting things over with a mind to both disk use balance and space, do you reckon those factors will be fairly easy to work out? From your suggestion that I can symlink stuff over to /spill with a reasonably fine granularity i.e. /var/spool and/or /var/db etc, I get the impression that it will be. Do symlink cause any sort of performance hit? Or rather, any meaningful performance hit? Thanks, Donnachahome | help
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