Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:33:12 +0200 From: "Federico Lorenzi" <florenzi@gmail.com> To: "Aliya Harbouri" <aliyaharbouri@gmail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server? Message-ID: <3a386af20709261333r53afd674me9c2c58a6e2a3563@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <dec0591d0709261320l27aebdd3mce4a905e14474e81@mail.gmail.com> References: <dec0591d0709261320l27aebdd3mce4a905e14474e81@mail.gmail.com>
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On 9/26/07, Aliya Harbouri <aliyaharbouri@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm setting up a jailed server. I'm hoping to eventually use > sysutils/ezjail to deaden the pain a bit! I gave that a shot once, but I found manual jail configuration to be better. > > First step, have to get the disks partitioned! They're unpacked, at least ;-) > > I've read lots of comments like, > > "You should never setup your FreeBSD systems the way Linux or other > *nix's set them up." You shouldn't ^-^ > So, I'm looking for some Wisdom on how best to partition for the usage > I'm planning. > > The server's goal state is 4 jails, plus the non-jailed host: > > jail-1: DNS services {Bind9 & RBLDNSD} > jail-2: WebServer {Apache 22x + PHP5 + Perl 588 + MySQL 50x} > jail-3: mail server {Exim 468 + Spamassassin + ClamAV, etc.} > jail-4: an analysis/monitoring toolkit {Snort, Nagios, Nessus, etc.} > > I've got two identical 250 GB SATA2 drives available for this box. > > Although I have not yet grokked the whole "What's in a jail's dirs?" > issue, my initial stab at 'slices' is ~: > > drive 2: > / 2GB A bit big, but fine > /boot 2GB Nope, FreeBSD doesn't need / want a /boot > /tmp 2GB Fine > /swap 16GB Machine has 8GB RAM, so swap = 2X RAM A bit of overkill, but what the hell, you have the space > /usr 50GB What exactly do you plan on running on the host? > /jails 178GB Fine... > drive 2: > /var 100GB Huh? Refer to /usr above. > /data 100GB MailStore, DBs, www source files, etc. Fine again... > /home 20GB Fine again.. > > I'll betcha some of that's silly or wasteful. You'd be correct there :) I'm sure you could fit everything on one disk... Jails are really small, it's just your data that takes up space. If you could get everything in 250GB (which i think you could easily) RAID 1 might be a nice thing to have HTH Federico
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