Hello, I'm new to FreeBSD and this list, my name is Donnacha, I'm an
Irishman living in Edinburgh, Scotland.
I have read The Complete FreeBSD's section on disk partioning but would
very much appreciate some advice on how to divide up the 2 HDDs I'm
getting on my new server.
The server is locat
Jerry, thanks for your advice!
> If all your accounts and web pages
> are really in /home and you have no databases, I would be inclined
> to put both /usr and /var in the 80GB drive and leave the other one
> for home directories and web pages.
In The Complete FreeBSD, Greg Lehey suggests that it's
Thanks for taking the time to advise me Robert.
>Consider putting the databases (data, not code) in their own
> partition. That way they can be backed up, restored, and otherwise
> managed independantly of other system operations.
>The downside of this is you lose the ability to "borrow" s
Thanks RW.
>> How big should /tmp be?
>
> The precise size depends on your needs, people use values from a few
hundred
> MB to a few GB, however generally applictions that need a lot of
temporary
> storage will let you specify where it goes.
So, do you think 1GB for /tmp will be enough?
> / is p
Hi Harald, thanks.
GPT sounds great but the quick search I did turned up a lot of
references to 64-bit chips i.e. FreeBSD.org said "The GPT partitioning
scheme was introduced with the ia64 architecture as an MBR replacement".
Can GPT be also be used on 32-bit chips? My server has a single P4 2.
Hi Henry, thanks for your advice.
> It occurs to me that you are on the wrong track asking here. Ask
> people who run a forum about as big as you think yours can get how big
> the database is, and how big the templates are. If their database is
> 150Gb, then you should dedicate one disk for datab
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hi, another HDD question:
If you are getting a hosting center to set up a server with two HDDs,
and if the 2nd HDD has a /mirror partition the same size as the 1st HDD,
do the guys doing the install need to denote the /mirror partition as
being a particular type of partition i.e. in the same way
Francisco Reyes wrote:
BSD - You can take the code and do as you please. No need to even give
back the changes you made.
Although you DO need to carry the accreditation.
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