Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:43:41 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: Graham Lillico <graham_lillico@hotmail.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Filesystem Sizes Message-ID: <20011120083608.T16958-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <F132q6DqaJY4kJSFsxf0000b29f@hotmail.com>
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On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Graham Lillico wrote: > Hi, > > I'm setting up a File server it contains a 20gb disk which holds all the > system stuff and two 40Gb disks raided together to hold user home > directories, CVS repository, and the /usr/src and /usr/ports stuff so that I > can make them avaliable to all servers via NFS. > > The problem I have is I have no idea what size to make the /usr/ports and > /usr/src filesystems? Does anyone have any idea on a good ideal size I know > that /usr/ports is about 100Mb and that /usr/src is about 280Mb but how big > are they likely to get during kernel compiles etc. I did consider making > the whole disk the /usr filesystem but at 80Gb this seemed a bit excessive. i would suggest making a large /usr, and leaving /usr/ports and /usr/src inside of it. when you're building the world from /usr/src, it drops everything in to /usr/obj/.. which pretty much renders it useless to separate it all out on to a separate filesystem. what you could do, though, is set up a single partition to handle all the build and source code. this can (if set up on different disks) improve the amount of time it takes to do a make world. the next issue, is that /usr/ports stores all the port source code in /usr/ports/distfies. this alone can make /usr/ports bloat in some slightly unimaginable ways. > Also how may filesystem are you limited to per disk? And is vinum a good > option? to the best of my knowledge, there is no upper limit on partitions per disk. i don't care for vinum myself. software RAID isn't going to be as reliable as hardware. vinum just happens to be better than most versions of software RAID. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "if my thought-dreams could be seen.. "they'd probably put my head in a gillotine" -- Bob Dylan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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