Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:14:22 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: kiffin@gish.demon.nl (Kiffin Gish) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to access filesystem on 2nd disk ... Message-ID: <200511221514.jAMFEMI4007708@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <1132671955.707.28.camel@localhost>
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> > On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:57 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > > > I installed freeBSD 5.4 on a system with two hard disks, which I plan to > > > use as a dedicated fileserver, and following the default sysinstall > > > setup I have this: > > > > > > root@fileserver# df -h > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > > /dev/ad0s1a 248M 35M 193M 15% / > > > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev > > > /dev/ad0s1e 248M 12K 228M 0% /tmp > > > /dev/ad0s1f 35G 573M 31G 2% /usr > > > /dev/ad0s1d 248M 1.4M 226M 1% /var > > > > > > I have three questions: > > > > > > 1/ What's the best way to partition my second 20MB hard disk? > > > > Well, if it is really only a 20MB drive, I certainly wouldn't > > break it up at all. > > But, if it is really 20GB or something like that - your ad0 looks > > like it is a nominal 36GB or maybe a 40 GB - then it really depends > > on what you are doing. > > > > Yes I meant 20MB of course (sorry). Megabytes, megabytes, megabytes. ????-GB-???? > > > 2/ Should I dedicate the whole thing to one mount point, say > > > called /extra? > > > > That would not be a bad choice, expecially if you have a backup device > > that will hold the whole drive. The only real reasons to break it up > > are to facilitate backup/recovery and to isolate things. > > > > Actually I want to use it for backing up other systems, perhaps even on > a per person basis, storing files like images, MP3s, MPEGs, etc. Maybe > even using it as a Samba server and/or streaming music server. Well, in that case, it might not be a bad idea to make a partition for each person. But, there are not so many partitions available - only a-h. If you have less than 8 people, it would work, but if you have more, then you might want to explore chroot and jails to keep them isolated. > > > > 3/ Do I also need swap space on the 2nd drive? > > > > That would be a good idea, but it is not required. It is a > > reasonable idea to split your swap over all your drives, but > > there is nothing that makes that mandatory. > > I read somewhere that one should 'always' have a swap area available on > every drive in case the kernel crashes. That would probably be every boot drive/slice. For a kernel crash, having swap on a different drive probably is less relevent. ////jerry > > > ////jerry > > > > > > > > Thanks alot in advance as usual. > > > > > > -- > > > Kiffin Gish > > > Gouda, The Netherlands > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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" > > > > > > -- > Kiffin Gish > Gouda, The Netherlands > > _______________________________________________ > 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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