How to access filesystem on 2nd disk ...
Jerry McAllister
jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Tue Nov 22 15:14:48 GMT 2005
>
> On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:57 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > >
> > > I installed freeBSD 5.4 on a system with two hard disks, which I plan to
> > > use as a dedicated fileserver, and following the default sysinstall
> > > setup I have this:
> > >
> > > root at fileserver# df -h
> > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> > > /dev/ad0s1a 248M 35M 193M 15% /
> > > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
> > > /dev/ad0s1e 248M 12K 228M 0% /tmp
> > > /dev/ad0s1f 35G 573M 31G 2% /usr
> > > /dev/ad0s1d 248M 1.4M 226M 1% /var
> > >
> > > I have three questions:
> > >
> > > 1/ What's the best way to partition my second 20MB hard disk?
> >
> > Well, if it is really only a 20MB drive, I certainly wouldn't
> > break it up at all.
> > But, if it is really 20GB or something like that - your ad0 looks
> > like it is a nominal 36GB or maybe a 40 GB - then it really depends
> > on what you are doing.
> >
>
> Yes I meant 20MB of course (sorry). Megabytes, megabytes, megabytes.
????-GB-????
> > > 2/ Should I dedicate the whole thing to one mount point, say
> > > called /extra?
> >
> > That would not be a bad choice, expecially if you have a backup device
> > that will hold the whole drive. The only real reasons to break it up
> > are to facilitate backup/recovery and to isolate things.
> >
>
> Actually I want to use it for backing up other systems, perhaps even on
> a per person basis, storing files like images, MP3s, MPEGs, etc. Maybe
> even using it as a Samba server and/or streaming music server.
Well, in that case, it might not be a bad idea to make a partition
for each person. But, there are not so many partitions available
- only a-h. If you have less than 8 people, it would work, but
if you have more, then you might want to explore chroot and jails
to keep them isolated.
>
> > > 3/ Do I also need swap space on the 2nd drive?
> >
> > That would be a good idea, but it is not required. It is a
> > reasonable idea to split your swap over all your drives, but
> > there is nothing that makes that mandatory.
>
> I read somewhere that one should 'always' have a swap area available on
> every drive in case the kernel crashes.
That would probably be every boot drive/slice. For a kernel crash,
having swap on a different drive probably is less relevent.
////jerry
>
> > ////jerry
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks alot in advance as usual.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Kiffin Gish
> > > Gouda, The Netherlands
> > >
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> Kiffin Gish
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