How to access filesystem on 2nd disk ...

[Kiffin Gish]

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.

> > 
> > 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.

> > 
> > 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.

> 
> ////jerry
> 
> > 
> > Thanks alot in advance as usual.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Kiffin Gish
> > Gouda, The Netherlands
> > 
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Kiffin Gish
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