Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 12:33:28 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Disk Partitioning (was Clearing /var/mail) Message-ID: <19981015123328.A503@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3625894A.71D9@echidna.com>; from Graeme Tait on Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:34:02PM -0700 References: <75B246B6570BD211815E0060B05785010355DF@naeugnt1.netassociates.com> <75B246B6570BD211815E0060B057850148EF@naeugnt1.netassociates.com> <19981014113501.C21983@freebie.lemis.com> <3624A3A4.1E79@echidna.com> <19981015104330.E586@freebie.lemis.com> <3625894A.71D9@echidna.com>
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On Wednesday, 14 October 1998 at 22:34:02 -0700, Graeme Tait wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, 14 October 1998 at 6:14:12 -0700, Graeme Tait wrote: >>> Greg Lehey wrote: > > <snipped extensively> > >> They all look allocated to me, they just have little in common with >> the original idea. But I disagree strongly with the approach. > > Are not cylinders 389-553 of da0 unallocated to any filesystem? Oops. Missed them. >>> As installed, it became: >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# >>> /dev/da0s1b none swap sw 0 0 >>> /dev/da1s1b none swap sw 0 0 >>> /dev/da0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 >>> /dev/da0s1h /tmp ufs rw 2 2 >>> /dev/da0s1e /usr ufs rw 2 2 >>> /dev/da1s1e /usr/obj ufs rw,noauto,async,noatime 2 2 >>> /dev/da0s1g /usr/ports ufs rw,noauto,async,noatime 2 2 >>> /dev/da0s1f /usr/src ufs rw,noauto,async,noatime 2 2 >>> /dev/da0s1d /var ufs rw 2 2 >>> /dev/cd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 2 2 >>> proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ... >>> 8 partitions: >>> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] >>> a: 409600 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 25*) >>> b: 524288 409600 swap # (Cyl. 25*- 58*) >>> c: 8888924 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 553*) >>> d: 409600 5849088 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 364*- 389*) >>> e: 3072000 933888 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 58*- 249*) >>> f: 512000 4005888 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 249*- 281*) >>> g: 716800 4517888 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 281*- 325*) >>> h: 614400 5234688 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 325*- 364*) >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> The only valid reasons for more than one partition on a drive are: >> >> 1. Security. If you screw up a file system, you usually don't screw >> up the others. This happens very seldom nowadays, however. > > But would you not still have at least partitions for swap, / and /usr ? Well, at least / and swap. You can discuss /usr. I personally tend to make an exception here (and have a /usr file system)a if the disk is big enough (currently more than 1 GB). > I guess my question now is what *is* the "best" way to partition > these two drives (let's say for a general-purpose web server setup, > supporting also mail, ftp, DNS, web-related databases, with a rather > large [2-3GB] set of html files, and busy web activity logs). 40 MB /, 256 MB swap, and the rest for /usr. Make sure that you replace the /var directory by a symlink to, say, /usr/var. >> If you really do need extensibility, take a look at Vinum >> (http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html). > > Well, I have looked at it, but I guess I was rather put off by the > red stuff at the top, and beta state. Plus it wasn't clear to me, > with my minimal UNIX knowledge, how I would use it, The man pages *should* explain what to do. > and what I would gain. You'd gain some of the flexibility described above. > Is the software RAID-5 going to be free, and how does its > performance compare with hardware? It's going to be free, but not yet. Cybernet keep it under license for 18 months. >>> Graeme Tait - Echidna >> >> That's an interesting name from time zone -7. > > Ex-aussie! Platypus was taken, of course, so now everyone > (non-aussie) says "What's echidna?" ("ch" as in "chin"). :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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