Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 03:20:27 +0530 From: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> To: Marwan Sultan <dead_line@hotmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: partitioning server with 2 hard drives Message-ID: <DB8PR06MB64422DC0BDC01D00B0A077A6F6200@DB8PR06MB6442.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <MWHPR06MB32479D288A8D10AD73FC6A329A200@MWHPR06MB3247.namprd06.prod.outlook.com> References: <MWHPR06MB32479D288A8D10AD73FC6A329A200@MWHPR06MB3247.namprd06.prod.outlook.com>
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On 2020-09-16 03:04, Marwan Sultan 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 > > Questions : > > 1. Would you kindly advise what is the best partitioning scheme on 2 hard drives? > 2. in FreeBSD handbook says i would better create swap on both partitions? may someone advise HOW and WHY ? > > I'm a little confused because of the 2 hard drives. > > thank you for your help > > > * Marwan > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hi Marwan, GPT is best. You should have a single swap partition, size 32 GB. Regards, Manish Jain
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