Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 17:32:57 -0400 From: Paul Pathiakis <pathiaki2@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Storage question Message-ID: <55EF5409.8020007@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20150908220639.20412cbd@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <55EF3D23.5060009@hiwaay.net> <20150908220639.20412cbd@gumby.homeunix.com>
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Just curious, why not ZFS? It is extremely stable and then you don't
have to worry about properly sizing but you can limit the size of a
parition from growing out of control. Due to the pooling, you have
access to all your storage on the drive to all the partitions.
P.
On 09/08/2015 17:06, RW via freebsd-questions wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 15:00:45 -0453.75
> William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
>>
>> I am prepping to bring 2 new FreeBSD 9.3R boxen online. I am trying
>> to figure out how large to make root & usr partitions to make most
>> effective use of storage. To that end, I did the following:
>>
>>
>> find / -xdev -maxdepth 3 -type f -exec ls -lSrF {} +
> It's easier to see the usage if you use:
>
> du -xhd1 /
>
> and then work down.
>
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