From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 15 08:24:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 009CE770 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:24:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kernel@webrz.net) Received: from webrz.xs4all.nl (webrz.xs4all.nl [82.95.248.216]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1CBE8FC0A for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:24:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from webrz.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by webrz.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1DF15083C; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:21:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.10.10.44] (chimea.webrz.net [10.10.10.44]) by webrz.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C8DD650834; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:21:50 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <507BC823.9060606@webrz.net> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:24:03 +0200 From: Jos Chrispijn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Clarke Subject: Re: FreeBSD9 - Fresh install (2) References: <5079ABFA.8050607@webrz.net> <20121013210513.80676821.freebsd@edvax.de> <507AFEEC.2030609@webrz.net> <201210142129.24479.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <201210142129.24479.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AV-Checked: ClamAV using ClamSMTP @triton.webrz.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:24:03 -0000 Mike Clarke: > My approach would be to go for 3 slices. Slice 1 would be a suitable size to > hold the OS and swap, I have quite a lot of ports installed on my desktop PC > so would go for about 20 to 30 GB. This could be less for a server but with > 1TB you can afford to be generous. This can then be partitioned to suit with > whatever combinations of /, /usr, /usr/local, /var. /tmp and swap suits your > fancy. Intererestig suggestion. In my opinion overkill, but if I have to use them, I's rather do it good then K-) thanks, Jos Chrispijn > The second slice would be the same size as the first and be left empty for now > as a spare. ok > The third slice, the rest of the disk, would be for all of your data and could > be partitioned (or not) to suit your needs for /home and any other local data > requirements. If there's to be any large mysql databases then I'd put them > here with symlinks from /var where mysql normally expects to find them. > > When you come to upgrade to the next FreeBSD release just install it into the > spare second slice and boot from that instead of the first. If you experience > any serious problems with the upgrade then nothing has been lost and you can > just revert to booting of the first slice until things are sorted out. that sounds goo to me! So I then have to only make that slice bootable and install, right? > The above is all assuming you're using UFS. If you're going to use ZFS then > there are other possibilities like using sysutils/beadm from ports > to manage multiple boot > environments in a single partition. Will use the server UFS only, but the /sysutils/beadm makes me curious... thanks for your suggestions, Jos Chrispijn