Re: *nix partitioning practices
jp <[email protected]>
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swap / /home is my typical arrangement Mail gets delivered to ~, so I don't need a big separate place for that to accumulate. Logs can take up lots of space, but disk is cheap. On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:46:17AM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > Sorry if this is pretty basic, but I'd like to revisit it. For years, > I've been partitioning my FreeBSD servers pretty much like I used to > partition my Solaris 2 servers way back. I did this simply because it's > what I was used to, but I realize that especially with the much larger > disks we have now, this is worth changing. > > Figuring 500GB of unformatted storage (~465GB formatted), I am thinking > along these lines: > > 8GB - SWAP (4GB RAM) > 1GB - / (root) > 15GB - /var (qmail puts everything in there) > 10GB - /usr (base binaries and ports) > 10GB - /usr/local (additional binaries I install) > 200GB - /home I used to just have one home fs, but I found that it > 200GB - /home2 makes for very long amanda restores for a customer site > > The roughly 20GB left over could be used for adding swap at a later date, > if neccessary. Before now, I used to do as above, only with no separate > /usr/local and only one /home. The idea is for a quick recovery in the > even a system has to be restored, and also to perhaps not have to back up > /usr all the time. > > I'd like to get experienced thoughts on this. > > TIA, > > James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor > [email protected] http://3.am > ========================================================================= > -- > Eat sushi frequently. - Avi > [email protected] is the human contact address. > [email protected] is the list posting address. > See below URL for subscribe/unsubscribe and list options: > http://inet-access.net/mailman/listinfo/list -- /* Jason Philbrook | Midcoast Internet Solutions - Wireless and DSL KB1IOJ | Broadband Internet Access, Dialup, and Hosting http://f64.nu/ | for Midcoast Maine http://www.midcoast.com/ */ -- Eat sushi frequently. - Avi [email protected] is the human contact address. [email protected] is the list posting address. See below URL for subscribe/unsubscribe and list options: http://inet-access.net/mailman/listinfo/list