From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 24 11:03:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA12329 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:03:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA12323 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:03:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with SMTP id LAA17129; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:04:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:04:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Francisco Reyes cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: New at server setup (samba). Partitioning question (long) In-Reply-To: <199809240450.AAA07118@federation.addy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Francisco Reyes wrote: > I would like FreeBSD to boot off disk 1, use Swaps from both drives and > use the "/data" from Disk 2 as the data volume. I want "/data" from > Disk 1 to have the previous day's data. > > In case the first disk died I would like to be able to boot off Disk 2. > > Questions: > -What is the best way to syncronise the volumes. Note that /data will > be going from disk 2 to disk 1, while everything else would go the > other way. rdist. Works fine for disk to disk as well as machine to machine. > -What is a reasonable swap size? Will have 96MB of ram and two 6Gig > drives. Max number of users expected is 10. Is there an easy way to > guesstimate minimun swap spaces? Depends on what folks are running. I've lately been using 4 times physical memory so I'll have breathing room when I double memory size down the road. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, a California corporation dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message