Just a quick thank you to everyone who contributed advice on my HDD
setup, including Joel, Ryan and Lars who answered most recently but whom
I haven't had time to respond to individually - I'm dashing off to
Ireland for a few days!
I'll be getting my server going when I come back, s
On Wed, 11 May 2005 13:15:52 -0600
"Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>
> On May 11, 2005, at 12:02 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote:
>
> > One more thing. Do not use the socalled 'dangerously dedicated'
> > disk setup.
> > Just make one regular slice o
On Wed, 11 May 2005 16:19:33 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I posted a question here last week, asking for advice on how I should
> ask my datacenter to divide up the HDDs in my new server. Thank you
> to everyone who responded.
>
I might make different choices in partioning a
Jerry McAllister wrote:
> One small modification, as someone noted, if you make a vinum or
mirror,
> you will probably not want the chunk of swap to be on the front of
> the second drive. So, you can make it last without too much
difficult.
Chuck Swiger wrote:
> If you do want to mirror the b
Jerry McAllister wrote:
> Might as well start with 5.4 from scratch. It was released a couple
> of days ago.
Well, you know how companies can be, it can take a while for what
they've standardized on to catch up, even though 5.4 sounds a lot more
stable than 5.3.
Jerry McAllister wrote:
> One sm
>
> Chuck and Jerry, thank you so much.
>
> Chuck - I'm going to take your advice on setting up some kind of mirror,
> software RAID or whatever, thanks.
>
> Jerry - that breakdown of how you would allocate space was amazing -
> seriously, a better division and a better explanation than anythi
>
> Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
> > Just having gone through setting up software raid as my first
> > post-install FreeBSD task, I can highly recommend gmirror. It uses the
> > new GEOM code (like gvinum) but gmirror has a man page and is feature
> > complete. As of 5.3, gvinum did not have all t
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the 200 GB drive
swap 2.5 GB
/mirror Same size as the actual size of the 1st disk, 65GB or whatever.
/spill All the rest
Does that make sense?
If you do want to mirror the boot disk, you want the first partition to be
bootable and resemble the first disk, w
Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
Just having gone through setting up software raid as my first
post-install FreeBSD task, I can highly recommend gmirror. It uses the
new GEOM code (like gvinum) but gmirror has a man page and is feature
complete. As of 5.3, gvinum did not have all the commands implement
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chuck - I'm going to take your advice on setting up some kind of mirror,
software RAID or whatever, thanks.
Just having gone through setting up software raid as my first
post-install FreeBSD task, I can highly recommend gmirror. It uses the
new GEOM code (like gvinum) b
Thanks Clifton, much appreciated.
> If / gets damaged in a
> failed upgrade or just via bad luck, you're nearly assured of being
> able to boot off of /altroot to repair things. It's the kind of thing
> you might use only once in several years but which saves you a ton of
> grief then.
Sounds well
Chuck and Jerry, thank you so much.
Chuck - I'm going to take your advice on setting up some kind of mirror,
software RAID or whatever, thanks.
Jerry - that breakdown of how you would allocate space was amazing -
seriously, a better division and a better explanation than anything I've
found in
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 04:19:33PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I posted a question here last week, asking for advice on how I should
> ask my datacenter to divide up the HDDs in my new server. Thank you to
> everyone who responded.
>
> I have tried to understand all the adv
On May 11, 2005, at 12:02 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote:
One more thing. Do not use the socalled 'dangerously dedicated'
disk setup.
Just make one regular slice on each disk that uses all of the disk.
Then partition those slices. You won't notice the difference in
amount of available disk and yo
>
> Jerry, thank you so much.
>
> > Make a file system out of the 'unallocated' space now even if you don't
> > decide on a mount point or use until later.
>
> Does it matter what I call that file system i.e. can I change it easily
> later on from the command line? Can I just call the free spa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Chuck, thanks for responding.
You're welcome.
... For what it's worth, I'd rather have two 80GB drives in a RAID-1
mirror than have my stuff on two seperate drives, but using software
RAID like vinum/gvinum, you can still mirror 80GB onto the 200GB
drive, and have an
Hi Chuck, thanks for responding.
... For what it's worth, I'd rather have two 80GB
drives in a RAID-1 mirror than have my stuff on two seperate drives, but
using software RAID like vinum/gvinum, you can still mirror 80GB onto
the 200GB drive, and have an additional 120 GB of space left over.
Tha
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ ... ]
I understand a little more than I did but am still unsure as to how I
should divide the HDDs and would very much appreciate reactions to my
current proposal.
Howdy--
If it helps, please note that FreeBSD will fit just fine into 10GB or less.
How you want to layou
Wow, I just got an email from my host saying they'd gone ahead and set
up my server without waiting for my instructions.
I logged in using the details they sent and found that they've set it up
as follows:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a507630 35424
Jerry, thank you so much.
Make a file system out of the 'unallocated' space now even if you don't
decide on a mount point or use until later.
Does it matter what I call that file system i.e. can I change it easily
later on from the command line? Can I just call the free space on the
1st HDD /fre
>
> Hi again,
>
> I posted a question here last week, asking for advice on how I should
> ask my datacenter to divide up the HDDs in my new server. Thank you to
> everyone who responded.
>
> I have tried to understand all the advice given and, since then, have
> tried to get myself up to spe
Hi again,
I posted a question here last week, asking for advice on how I should
ask my datacenter to divide up the HDDs in my new server. Thank you to
everyone who responded.
I have tried to understand all the advice given and, since then, have
tried to get myself up to speed by reading the re
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