slice and partition layouts

[Nikolas Britton]

Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:

>On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 14:35:54 -0600
>Nikolas Britton <freebsd at nbritton.org> wrote:
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>>I'm trying to find in depth info about the proper way to layout
>>drives, slices, partions, filesystems, FHS in unix land, also in
>>relation to server role types.
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>>I've read Chapters 2 and 3 from the FreeBSD Handbook and Chapter 16, 
>>from Absolute BSD but they seem to be lacking the detailed info I'm 
>>looking for.
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>>Basicly I need to know where the heck I put the 25gigs of data thats
>>on are old NT server on are new FreeBSD server, In windows I'd just
>>partion a drive in two (Drives C: and D:) C: for for OS and Programs
>>and D: for Data but in unix the layout is hierarchical and data is
>>stored all over the place (/home, /usr, /var)?
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>Please take a look at hier(7) (man 7 hier), it might answer some of you
>questions.
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Thanks will do.

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>No one could give you an exact advice without knowing what that server
>will do, how often data will change, the average file size, etc. Unix
>style has some advantages over the windows.
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General Purpose for a small company, Primary: SMB File server, intranet
(Groupware, CRM) Secondary: Tasks related to primary, RDBMS, Email
(IMAP), LDAP, etc.

The bulk of that 20~25gigs of data is file server related.
Disk Subsystem: 40GB Hardware RAID 1 (IDE), I also have 3 10GB/10k RPM,
UW SCSI Drives for it but am not planning on using them (no room in server).
Server: IBM Netfinity 3500, 333Mhz X2 (SMP), 512MB RAM


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>For example, I have a database server, on which I have a separate slice
>for mysql's databases, a somehow big /tmp and "small" slices for / ,
>/usr, /var.
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>You should ask this kind on questions@ providing more information.
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ok, but this is newbie related, is it not?

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