How to access filesystem on 2nd disk ...

[Kiffin Gish]

On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 10:14 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > 
> > 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-????

Am I sleeping or what?

Yes, of course I meant GB!!!

Sorry (again) ...

> 
> > > > 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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Kiffin Gish
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