From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 30 23:25: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1AA0115BB3 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 23:24:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpilgrim@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 8640 invoked by alias); 31 Mar 1999 07:24:40 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org@fixme Received: (qmail 8628 invoked by uid 0); 31 Mar 1999 07:24:39 -0000 Received: from fdsl89.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (216.161.80.89) by ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 31 Mar 1999 07:24:39 -0000 Message-ID: <3701CD8A.FB5AFE6F@uswest.net> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 23:23:54 -0800 From: Nocturne Organization: Neatly stacked heaps of digital chaos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FS sizes for a small web/mail server? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm building a small server running FreeBSD 2.2.7[1]. It will run Apache, pop/smtp services, no X windows, and connect to the internet via my lan through a separate gateway. It will be a public access server and have a large, searchable database. As it is a dedicated web/mail server, I won't be installing many extra packages or the ports tree (all of that I have on CD or can get via ftp/CVS). It will be primarily remote managed. The server hardware is a 100 MHz AMD K5 with 64 MB of RAM and a 500 MB HDD. It will be a low usage setup, not very many hits and will eventually be replaced by either web hosting or a new server. It's connection to the internet will be via 100bTX ethernet to a separate gateway. My question is how much space should I allocate for each FS? I'm having trouble estimating how much /tmp and /var I'll need and whether or not it would be worth it to place them on separate partitions from /usr. I think a 20 MB / and 96-128MB swap should be enough for now. Any help would be greatly appreciated, TIA. 1: I don't have a later version of FreeBSD to use, but plan on upgrading to a more recent release when I get the new server. -- dpilgrim@uswest.net /\ / __ Our lies are merely the gryph@mindless.com / \/OC/URNE truth of another world ICQ: 29880099 Death is not a kill -9, just a DALnet: anim0s make world and shutdown -r now PGPKey available To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message