Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 23:33:49 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Kaya Saman <SamanKaya@netscape.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question Message-ID: <20100101223349.GA99997@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <4B3E6BF0.3020900@netscape.net> References: <20091229142310.GD90870@Alex1.lan> <4B3A1E1A.1040506@netscape.net> <20091229162711.GA38738@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> <4B3A3045.3050907@netscape.net> <20091229173139.GA33613@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4B3A5321.3070709@netscape.net> <20091229223132.GA59169@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4B3A86B0.8050607@netscape.net> <20091229234444.GA60411@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4B3E6BF0.3020900@netscape.net>
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--xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 11:41:04PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: > Hi Roland, >=20 > many thanks for the response!!! :-) You're welcome! =20 > I waited until I had a test server setup and at least now I do...... >=20 > In fact I think from my usage perspective FreeBSD is not that difficult= =20 > to understand!!! If you're used to Solaris of Linux, it should be familiar. But there are so= me differences in details. > I now have a test machine setup which I built nano and Bind 9.6.1 from=20 > the ports collection and I have ntp and nfs setup too. >=20 > I am currently wondering what to do about the disk space as nothing is us= ed: >=20 > test# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 34G 1.2G 30G 4% / > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /var/named/dev >=20 > If I create separate partitions for /var /usr and /tmp I am sure that I= =20 > won't need that much unless I have a totally dynamic file system which=20 > will grow over time. You do realize that changing partitions will destroy your filesystems? Just= so you know. :-) > But with minimal usage just to transfer the off=20 > file but mainly read files from as now the users are going down to 1=20 > machine (just me) so I think with 2GB I can probably get away with it=20 > for each filesystem??? >=20 > What do you say? It really depends on what you want to do with it... How many ports do you w= ant to install? What kind of servers do you want to run? How much data will the users generate/store? All these questions have an impact, and nobody can answer them for you. :-) You could leave it as it is for now, and just use the machine for a while, = and see how big the different directories get over time. (hint; use du(1) to ch= eck the size of all files under a directory) Once you've got a feeling for how much space you need, you can backup your data (config files and user data) = and do a new install where you partition the disk properly. That's the best way IMO. > P.s. The good part with this is that I'm only using 23MB or memory too=20 > which is incredible considering that Linux or Solaris would take so much= =20 > more. This is kinda cool...... You can reduce memory usage somewhat more by building a kernel that only contains the drivers that you need compiled in, and nothing else. If you do= n't build kernel modules, it will save some disk space as well. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAks+eE0ACgkQEnfvsMMhpyUlLgCfXzClLNPT1V40+qZG7n2tnrE2 WLIAoIqTsr/3hExDAx5eWtelcU9wJu/u =XsSa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V--
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