On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 11:41:04PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: > Hi Roland, > > many thanks for the response!!! :-)
You're welcome! > I waited until I had a test server setup and at least now I do...... > > In fact I think from my usage perspective FreeBSD is not that difficult > to understand!!! If you're used to Solaris of Linux, it should be familiar. But there are some differences in details. > I now have a test machine setup which I built nano and Bind 9.6.1 from > the ports collection and I have ntp and nfs setup too. > > I am currently wondering what to do about the disk space as nothing is used: > > test# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 34G 1.2G 30G 4% / > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /var/named/dev > > If I create separate partitions for /var /usr and /tmp I am sure that I > won't need that much unless I have a totally dynamic file system which > will grow over time. You do realize that changing partitions will destroy your filesystems? Just so you know. :-) > But with minimal usage just to transfer the off > file but mainly read files from as now the users are going down to 1 > machine (just me) so I think with 2GB I can probably get away with it > for each filesystem??? > > What do you say? It really depends on what you want to do with it... How many ports do you want to install? What kind of servers do you want to run? How much data will the users generate/store? All these questions have an impact, and nobody can answer them for you. :-) You could leave it as it is for now, and just use the machine for a while, and see how big the different directories get over time. (hint; use du(1) to check the size of all files under a directory) Once you've got a feeling for how much space you need, you can backup your data (config files and user data) and do a new install where you partition the disk properly. That's the best way IMO. > P.s. The good part with this is that I'm only using 23MB or memory too > which is incredible considering that Linux or Solaris would take so much > more. This is kinda cool...... You can reduce memory usage somewhat more by building a kernel that only contains the drivers that you need compiled in, and nothing else. If you don't build kernel modules, it will save some disk space as well. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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