Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:28:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org (Lowell Gilbert) Cc: Teo De Las Heras <teoheras@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Feeback on partitioning Message-ID: <200510171728.j9HHSeA6000680@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <44mzl844u6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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> > Teo De Las Heras <teoheras@gmail.com> writes: > > > I'm getting ready to set up a single system as a mail, print, web, and file > > server. I may be installing other applications but nothing as intense as > > Xorg. If at all, I'll probably just install some network monitoring tools. > > I'm placing all of these roles on a single system because it is only for my > > lab. I have a 160 GB to use and I'm thinking about laying out the partitions > > as follows: > > Part Size > > / 10G - for both the / and /usr files > > (swap) 2G > > /var 10G - Web server, print spool, other log files?? > > /var/mail 10G - for all mail files and easy backup > > /home 50G - for all user files > > /home/teo 40G - For my files and easy backup > > *The rest of the space I'll leave unused in case I need to grow a partition > > I'm new to FreeBSD/*Nix so all criticism is welcome. You can only grow a partition if there is empty space contiguous with that partition. So, rather than leave chunks of empty space between each partition just in case, I would just make one large partition at the end and then move things that get too big there and symlink them. The major considerations with partition size are a small root to make it easier for recoveries if there is a problem and to increase the probability of being able to do a minimal (single user) boot if there are problems, enough swap space, keeping things that might grow uncontrollably isolated from critical stuff such as root and nowdays, /usr and the final one is breaking things up in to chunks that suit your backup scheme/media. ////jerry > > It should work fine. > Make sure your backup scheme will work with it. > _______________________________________________ > 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" >
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