From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 23 20:05:01 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C31F106566C for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:05:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (elsa.codelab.cz [94.124.105.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0818F8FC24 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:05:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (localhost.codelab.cz [127.0.0.1]) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01F1719E019; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:05:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (r5bb235.net.upc.cz [86.49.61.235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EBF4B19E023; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:04:57 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4B5B5669.9080906@quip.cz> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:04:57 +0100 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100104 SeaMonkey/2.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Chadwick References: <20100122162155.GG3917@e-Gitt.NET> <20100122170716.GA75020@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20100122170716.GA75020@icarus.home.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE -> -STABLE and size of / X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:05:01 -0000 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [...] > While I'm here, I figure I'd share how I end up partitioning most of the > server systems I maintain. I use this general "formula" when building a > new system, unless it's a 4-disk box (see bottom of mail): > > ad4s1a = / = UFS2 = 1GB > ad4s1b = swap = (2*RAM) or (2*MaxRAMPossible) > ad4s1d = /var = UFS2+SU = 16GB (mandatory: must be>= 2*RAM) > ad4s1e = /tmp = UFS2+SU = (2*RAM) > ad4s1f = /usr = UFS2+SU = 16GB Why you are suggesting /var >= 2*RAM? Is it just for saving crash dumps or anything else? And why so big /tmp? I am running servers with smaller sizes for years without any problem. (I am not using crash dumps and if I need it, it seems better to use dumpdir="/my/large/storage") Miroslav Lachman