Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:02:09 -0700 From: "Aliya Harbouri" <aliyaharbouri@gmail.com> To: "Federico Lorenzi" <florenzi@gmail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server? Message-ID: <dec0591d0709261402ud1c2113k9cbe4dcf5669c2f3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3a386af20709261333r53afd674me9c2c58a6e2a3563@mail.gmail.com> References: <dec0591d0709261320l27aebdd3mce4a905e14474e81@mail.gmail.com> <3a386af20709261333r53afd674me9c2c58a6e2a3563@mail.gmail.com>
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> > drive 2: > > / 2GB > A bit big, but fine I though so, but with drives this big & cheap ... :-) > > /boot 2GB > Nope, FreeBSD doesn't need / want a /boot I didn't realize :-/ Just to be sure, you DO mean it doesn't want a separate slice/partition, right? Because, I'm looking at a "/boot" directory ... > > /tmp 2GB > Fine OK. > > /swap 16GB Machine has 8GB RAM, so swap = 2X RAM > A bit of overkill, but what the hell, you have the space I've had 2X RAM drummed into me for ages. Not the way of things in FreeBSD? > > /usr 50GB > What exactly do you plan on running on the host? Normally, not a whole lot. I'll have a full Development environment there, of course. cron, sshd, snmpd (haven't figured out yet if I need that in EACH jail yet), etc -- "small stuff" mainly. Eventually some VPN service via an an encryption card, but that's later. If I'm forced to do so, maybe KDE4 for rare/occassional use. Prefer not to ... > > /jails 178GB > Fine... > > > > drive 2: > > /var 100GB > Huh? Refer to /usr above. My guess @ /var sizing came as a result of, http://barryp.org/blog/entries/ezjail_ports/ "To keep both jailed and non-jailed systems from trying to put any port-building working-directories or downloaded distribution files in /usr/ports, the /etc/make.conf files (both the "real" one and the ones inside jails) should contain something like: WRKDIRPREFIX= /var/ports DISTDIR= /var/ports/distfiles PACKAGES= /var/ports/packages" And having multiple ports copies ... But, now, as I'm re-reading that, I think I got it backwards. This'll PREVENT having multiple, wasteful copies. I think. > > /data 100GB MailStore, DBs, www source files, etc. > Fine again... > > /home 20GB > Fine again.. > > > > > I'll betcha some of that's silly or wasteful. > You'd be correct there :) Give a girl a break! I must've missed the really-easy-and-clear documentation on the whole thing! At least I asked first ;-p > I'm sure you could fit everything on one disk... Jails are really small, it's > just your data that takes up space. If you could get everything in 250GB > (which i think you could easily) RAID 1 might be a nice thing to have Now that's an interesting thought. My Mobo has 1 SATA-2 port (3 devices), and 2 SATA-1 ports (1 device each). And it does support SATA RAID 0/1. I'm NOT AT ALL sure what running RAID on 2 drives on a single SATA-2 port does for performance, but it IS an interesting option. Tanks! > HTH It does :-) Thanks a lot! Ali
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