From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 31 10:26:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05E1616A41F for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:26:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5436943D48 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:26:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id j9VAQrnU031415; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:26:53 +0200 Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 31 Oct 05 12:26:54 +0300 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 31 Oct 05 12:26:43 +0300 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (192.168.1.2) by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48) with ESMTP; 31 Oct 05 12:26:39 +0300 Message-ID: <4365F16A.5070102@raad.tartu.ee> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:26:50 +0200 From: Toomas Aas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (Windows/20041201) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ronald Maggio References: <20051030214423.11355.qmail@web52109.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051030214423.11355.qmail@web52109.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An installation on SCSI Drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:26:57 -0000 Ronald Maggio wrote: > Other then /root, /swap, /user, and /var, what other partitions are nee= ded for a first go at FreeBSD, in Linux /home is often used, but what is = a good lineup for FreeBSD other then the ones named so far? First, let's get our terms correct. A typical FreeBSD installation on one HDD uses two partitions: a FreeBSD = partition and a swap partition. Inside the FreeBSD partition are slices, = which are mounted under directories (mountpoints) such as /var. So, your question seems to be about slices, not partitions. The default FreeBSD installation doesn't have slices such as /root or=20 /user - which doesn't mean you can't create them if you want. Also, as=20 you understood, /swap as slice does not exist, because that's a separate = partition. If you are not sure what slices you need, you can use the "automatic"=20 option during FreeBSD install to use the defaults. Often, however, you=20 may find that some other arrangement might better suit your intended use = of the machine. On a "typical" server, nowadays, I set up the slices like this: / 128 MB /var 2 GB /var/tmp 256 MB /usr 4 GB /storage (all the rest) Then I symlink /tmp to /var/tmp. If there will be considerable amount of = users, then I create /storage/home and symlink /home to that. Also=20 /storage is used for various purposes depending of the tasks that the=20 server performs, such as /storage/www for webpages, /storage/mail for=20 mailboxes, /storage/share for Samba shares etc. > The books I=92ve read so far really don=92t relate a whole lot in this = regard. Partitioning/slicing is largely a religious issue and everyone believes=20 their choice is The Right One, so the archives of this mailing list=20 might provide you with more material than you can digest :) > If I need to span a partition over more than one hard drive how is this= done? If I were to make a large /user partition over small drives, how a= re these partition extensions set up? Again the books don=92t relate how = this is done during an installation. In the days of FreeBSD 4.x, I used vinum for such purposes. In 5.x, as I = understand, there is gvinum for the same task, but I haven't used that.=20 I much prefer hardware RAID adapters. --=20 Toomas Aas