Server with largish disks

From: Keith Woodworth (kwoody_at_citytel.net)
Date: 05/17/04

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    We are looking at putting in a newish server to replace an aging one.

    Its a POP3/Webmail machine, running BSD/OS

    One I'd like has 4 x 9gig and 4 x 18gig drives, 2 x 733mhz cpus.

    Only have about 2500+ active mail accounts on this machine but it is
    running low on space and we have lots of those accounts being access'd via
    Openwebmail.

    Mail spool is /var/mail

    Question is what would be a good way to partition the drives in the above
    configuration?

    I would like acutally to use 3 x 18 gig drives as /var with the 4th
    as the hotspare and the rest of the file systems (/ /usr) on 3 x 9gig
    with the 4th as hotspace.

    Is this a workable way to do it? Also since this has dual cpu's, how is
    the SMP support in FBSD 5.2? ie: how stable is it?

    Will the OS take advantage of having the two cpu's? Or would that depend
    on the software (Postfix, Qpopper (though that maybe replaced) ) to use
    the xtra cpu?

    Thanks,
    Keith

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