How should I divvy up my HDDs? Suggestions Please.
freebsd.org at donnacha.com
freebsd.org at donnacha.com
Thu May 5 06:25:44 PDT 2005
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 a good idea to
place web pages in /var, I don't quite grasp why. Do you think it would
be a better idea to stick with the standard and leave web pages in /home?
As for databases, I'll have a lot of MySQL DBs and possibly, at a later
date, Postgresql. I'm hoping to specialize in forum-based web-sites and
Web apps generally. As I understand it, forum content is actually
stored in the DB and pulled dynamically via PHP, meaning, I think, that
the DB of each forum will take up a lot more space that the templated
PHP pages that make up the "site" part of the equation. I could be
wrong about that.
What about /tmp? Looking through this list's archives, I read that it's
considered more secure to place /tmp on a seperate partition from /,
would it be even more secure to place it on a seperate HDD? How big
should /tmp be?
Here's a pretty stupid question I have, apologies for my lack of clue:
do I have to define the size of each partition? Is it difficult to
change them at a later date? I'll only have command-line access.
Thanks again,
Donnacha
Jerry McAllister wrote:
>>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 located in a facility in the US and will be used as a Web
>>and email server. It has an 80GB HDD and a 200GB HDD, both IDE but I'm
>>asking for them to be placed on seperate buses.
>>
>>I was thinking of using the 80GB as the primary and placing / on it,
>>while putting /var, /usr and /home on the 200GB.
>>
>>I'll have 2GB of RAM, so, I was thinking about putting 2GB of swap on
>>each HDD.
>>
>>How does that sound. I would be very grateful for any advice you can
>>give me before I relay my instructions to the guys doing the installation.
>
>
> It depends a lot on what you leave in /usr and /var and /home.
> It kind of looks like you will leave the 80GB drive mostly empty
> the way you are doing things. 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. Since the default place for
> databases is in /var that can make a big difference on where you put
> it or if you take the db directory out of /var and put it somewhere
> else, etc.
>
> Putting some of your swap on each drive as you have indicated
> is a good idea.
>
> ////jerry
>
>
>>Thanks and I look forward to participating in this community,
>>
>>Donnacha
>>
>>
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