From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 26 16:28:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 0964416A403 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:28:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from strange.daemonsecurity.com (59.Red-81-33-11.staticIP.rima-tde.net [81.33.11.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7CF43D45 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:28:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [192.168.7.193] (68.Red-80-34-55.staticIP.rima-tde.net [80.34.55.68]) by strange.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42B892E037; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:28:15 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4519550F.70206@locolomo.org> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:27:59 +0200 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Desmond Coughlan References: <20060926160445.77318.qmail@web27215.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060926160445.77318.qmail@web27215.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jerry McAllister , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RE : Re: problem installing on i386 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:28:18 -0000 Desmond Coughlan wrote: > So on the second disk drive, which is around.. 20GB, IIRC, we want /mail, /sql and /forums, and maybe 512M of swap. On the first, system files etc. and swap. I used to tinker around with postgreSQL, so that'll be what we'll be using. > > How does that sound? 1) You will find maintenance easier if you stick to default location for storing stuff, so mount your partitions on those mountpoints: By default user's mboxes goes in /var/mail, databases in /var/db. 2) You might then consider making your second disk dedicated to /var entirely rather than fragment in multiple partitions. 3) I recall on your original list you had swap on both disks, this may or may not have any impact on performance compared to just one swap on the first disk. I would do something like this: ad0s1: / 128MB swap 512MB /usr 6144MB /tmp 512MB ad1s1: /home 4092MB /share 4092MB /var 4092MB The /share is non-default, I like to have this for groups. Say your organisation have various working groups, files belonging to those should not reside in users home-dir, but rather be shared among all members. The above has some further advantages: on the second disk is all the data users create, you can wipe ad0 in a reinstall if needed, there you only need to restore config-files in /etc and /usr/local/etc. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9