Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

[Jerry McAllister]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 02:02:09PM -0700, Aliya Harbouri wrote:

> > >         drive 2:
> > >                 /       2GB
> > A bit big, but fine
> 
> I though so, but with drives this big & cheap ... :-)
> 
> > >                 /boot   2GB
> > Nope, FreeBSD doesn't need / want a /boot
> 
> I didn't realize :-/
> 
> Just to be sure, you DO mean it doesn't want a separate
> slice/partition, right?  Because, I'm looking at a "/boot" directory

Yes, you should not put /boot in a separate filesystem.
It should be in root.

You have a lot for stuff like /usr, but really, how much you need
in any file system depends on how you will use it.   Try it and
gain some experience with the setup and go from there.   You can
change it the next time you do a major upgrade.   

////jerry

> ...
> 
> > >                 /tmp    2GB
> > Fine
> 
> OK.
> 
> > >                 /swap   16GB    Machine has 8GB RAM, so swap = 2X RAM
> > A bit of overkill, but what the hell, you have the space
> 
> I've had 2X RAM drummed into me for ages. Not the way of things in FreeBSD?
> 
> > >                 /usr    50GB
> > What exactly do you plan on running on the host?
> 
> Normally, not a whole lot.  I'll have a full Development environment
> there, of course. cron, sshd, snmpd (haven't figured out yet if I need
> that in EACH jail yet), etc -- "small stuff" mainly.  Eventually some
> VPN service via an an encryption card, but that's later.
> 
> If I'm forced to do so, maybe KDE4 for rare/occassional use.  Prefer not to ...
> 
> > >                 /jails  178GB
> > Fine...
> >
> >
> > >         drive 2:
> > >                 /var    100GB
> > Huh? Refer to /usr above.
> 
> My guess @ /var sizing came as a result of,
> 
> http://barryp.org/blog/entries/ezjail_ports/
> 
> "To keep both jailed and non-jailed systems from trying to put any
> port-building working-directories or downloaded distribution files in
> /usr/ports, the /etc/make.conf files (both the "real" one and the ones
> inside jails) should contain something like:
> 
>     WRKDIRPREFIX=           /var/ports
>     DISTDIR=                /var/ports/distfiles
>     PACKAGES=               /var/ports/packages"
> 
> And having multiple ports copies ... But, now, as I'm re-reading that,
> I think I got it backwards.  This'll PREVENT having multiple, wasteful
> copies.
> 
> I think.
> 
> > >                 /data   100GB   MailStore, DBs, www source files, etc.
> > Fine again...
> > >                 /home   20GB
> > Fine again..
> >
> > >
> > > I'll betcha some of that's silly or wasteful.
> > You'd be correct there :)
> 
> Give a girl a break! I must've missed the really-easy-and-clear
> documentation on the whole thing!
> 
> At least I asked first ;-p
> 
> > I'm sure you could fit everything on one disk... Jails are really small, it's
> > just your data that takes up space. If you could get everything in 250GB
> > (which i think you could easily) RAID 1 might be a nice thing to have
> 
> Now that's an interesting thought.  My Mobo has 1 SATA-2 port (3
> devices), and 2 SATA-1 ports (1 device each).  And it does support
> SATA RAID 0/1.
> 
> I'm NOT AT ALL sure what running RAID on 2 drives on a single SATA-2
> port does for performance, but it IS an interesting option. Tanks!
> 
> > HTH
> 
> It does :-)
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> Ali
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"