I need further HDD advice before submitting order.

freebsd.org at donnacha.com freebsd.org at donnacha.com
Wed May 11 09:34:28 PDT 2005


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 /freea, and on the 2nd /freeb ?  And should I be dividing each 
into more than just one file system?

> I don't know what you expect to put in all that /usr space if you
> also have a /home and a /local (which would be /usr/local in reality).
> But, there is no harm.

Thanks, I'll bump both /usr and /local down to 10GB each, increasing the 
free space from 40 to 50GB.

> The system uses swap space for its business regardless of how much ram
> you have - even if it is not forced to swap to have enough space.
> It uses it for paging as well as swap too.

Thanks, didn't think of that.  Am I right to assume that paging isn't 
massively intensive?  And that it's still a good idea to have all the 
swap on the 1st HDD (as opposed to split between the two) because it 
will be balanced out anyway by tmp, home and var on the 2nd HDD.

 > That should be plenty for /tmp

Okay, so, my provisional setup at the moment is:

P4 2.8Mhz FSB 533, 2GB RAM

80GB HDD IDE:
/ = 1GB
/usr = 10GB
/local = 10GB
Swap = 4GB
/freea = 50GB

200GB HDD IDE:

/tmp = 2GB (is that enough?)
/home = 28GB
/var = 100GB (will inclube the forum databases etc)
/freeb = 70GB

How does that sound?  Again, I would be very grateful for any and all 
advice and opinions.

Thanks,

Donnacha


> ////jerry
> 
> 
> 
>>I decided not to use GPT because, although it sounds great, it seems a 
>>little complicated for a newbie like me.
>>
>>Apologies for seeking your help once again, I just need to get this 
>>straight before submitting the order, I would be very grateful for any 
>>and all advice.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Donnacha
>>
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