From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 16:56:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C96516A4CE for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 16:56:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E368D43D66 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 16:56:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from d@donnacha.com) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com (frontend2.internal [10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A632DC8E015 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 12:56:04 -0400 (EDT) X-Sasl-enc: V09t82jCZYLc2Bp8CwY5zBKvMB6T4/T+A/GC0MyTSgAQ 1115830563 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (82-41-213-217.cable.ubr12.edin.blueyonder.co.uk [82.41.213.217]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F042570363 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 12:56:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42823AA4.2050309@donnacha.com> Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 18:02:28 +0100 From: freebsd.org@donnacha.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <42822285.9050402@donnacha.com> In-Reply-To: <42822285.9050402@donnacha.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: I need further HDD advice before submitting order. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 16:56:06 -0000 Wow, I just got an email from my host saying they'd gone ahead and set up my server without waiting for my instructions. I logged in using the details they sent and found that they've set it up as follows: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 507630 35424 431596 8% / devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev /dev/ad2s1f 15231278 525930 13486846 4% /usr /dev/ad2s1e 5077038 548 4670328 0% /var /dev/ad0s1e 72802358 44 66978126 0% /home /dev/ad0s1d 507630 6 467014 0% /tmp /dev/ad2s1d 507630 6 467014 0% /var/tmp /dev/ad2s1g 168392416 4 154921020 0% /www Definitely very different from the configuration I've been moving towards - only 5GB for /var, almost 170GB for a directory I hadn't even considered, /www, not sure what they've allocated to swap. Damn. Should I try to reconfigure this or ask them to do a fresh install according to my instructions? I'm a bit worried because there might be elements of what they've included here that are necessary. Should I be including things like /dev in my instructions or isn't that implicit? Any and all advice VERY much appreciated, Thanks, Donnacha freebsd.org@donnacha.com wrote: > Hi again, > > I posted a question here last week, asking for advice on how I should > ask my datacenter to divide up the HDDs in my new server. Thank you to > everyone who responded. > > I have tried to understand all the advice given and, since then, have > tried to get myself up to speed by reading the relevant sections in The > Complete FreeBSD, FreeBSD Unleashed, Absolute BSD and Teach Yourself > FreeBSD in 24 Hours (it didn't). > > I understand a little more than I did but am still unsure as to how I > should divide the HDDs and would very much appreciate reactions to my > current proposal. > > ---------- > > Server purpose: Initially just forums, later sundry other Web apps i.e. > ecommerce, ticket bookings etc. Will possibly become a heavy-duty email > server at some stage. > > 2GB RAM > > 80GB HDD IDE: > / = 1GB > /usr = 15GB > /local = 15GB > Swap = 4GB > Unallocated = 40GB > > 200GB HDD IDE: > > /tmp = 2GB (is that enough?) > /home = 28GB > /var = 100GB (will inclube the forum databases etc) > Unallocated = 70GB > > I'll be asking them to put the both disks in dangerously dedicated mode, > with each on a different IDE bus. > > > ---------- > > Is it a good idea leaving so much unallocated space? My research > suggests that this may be useful for moving directories around or giving > specific subdirectories their own partition at a later date when I have > a better idea of usage, does that sound right? > > The only problem about creating partitions at a later date is that I > will have command line access only, I'm not even sure if I can create > partitions at a later date, I think that for sysinstall I might actually > have to be there. Can anyone advise me on this? > > Swap: As the second disk will have the presumably quite busy /tmp and > /var, placing all the swap on this the first disk, rather than shared > between both, could help to balance the load a bit (thanks to Henry > Miller for that suggestion). With 2GB of RAM, I'm hoping the Swap won't > be needed very often anyway; if it is, I may simply add more memory. > > I decided not to use GPT because, although it sounds great, it seems a > little complicated for a newbie like me. > > Apologies for seeking your help once again, I just need to get this > straight before submitting the order, I would be very grateful for any > and all advice. > > Thanks, > > Donnacha > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"