Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 16:58:46 -0500 From: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: partitioning server with 2 hard drives Message-ID: <c5d1a756-ee97-8ac1-27e8-af6e99387a00@kicp.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <CAHu1Y731qgvLbdVF1vrPiZ-9Bx7tXG==TKM88g8DMkp8Bd=qzg@mail.gmail.com> References: <MWHPR06MB32479D288A8D10AD73FC6A329A200@MWHPR06MB3247.namprd06.prod.outlook.com> <CAHu1Y731qgvLbdVF1vrPiZ-9Bx7tXG==TKM88g8DMkp8Bd=qzg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2020-09-15 16:48, Michael Sierchio wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 2:35 PM Marwan Sultan <dead_line@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Good day/Evening for all FreeBSDers 🙂 >> >> I want to install latest FreeBSD for a business server >> erver with the following specification. : >> Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5 3.5GHz >> Hardware RAID Controller 1 GB Cache with BBU >> 16 GB DDR4 RAM - Total >> 1 TB 7200 SATA >> 1 TB 7200 SATA >> >> I understand its advised to create it in this order and SWAP double (or >> triple) of the RAM (is 50 GB ok) ? >> / >> swap >> var >> /tmp >> /usr >> > > The swap advice is obsolete and deprecated. With only two drives, you'll > have to decide whether to RAID1 or not. > > I'm a firm believer that any world-writable directory ( /tmp, /var/tmp ) > should be a separate filesystem w/ rw,noexec,nosuid. I would second that. Apologies about Linuxism question: we do not have "nodev" mount option (I just double checked with man mount). Are we weaker here than Linux folks? I do use "nodev" in addition to the above on world writable mount points on Linux boxes. Valeri > I think that an 8GB > swap partition on each drive would be more than enough. You can > extrapolate from this. > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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