Re: How should I divvy up my HDDs? Suggestions Please.

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Date: 05/05/05

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    Jerry, thanks for your advice!

    > If all your accounts and web pages
    > are really in /home and you have no databases, I would be inclined
    > to put both /usr and /var in the 80GB drive and leave the other one
    > for home directories and web pages.

    In The Complete FreeBSD, Greg Lehey suggests that it's a good idea to
    place web pages in /var, I don't quite grasp why. Do you think it would
    be a better idea to stick with the standard and leave web pages in /home?

    As for databases, I'll have a lot of MySQL DBs and possibly, at a later
    date, Postgresql. I'm hoping to specialize in forum-based web-sites and
    Web apps generally. As I understand it, forum content is actually
    stored in the DB and pulled dynamically via PHP, meaning, I think, that
    the DB of each forum will take up a lot more space that the templated
    PHP pages that make up the "site" part of the equation. I could be
    wrong about that.

    What about /tmp? Looking through this list's archives, I read that it's
    considered more secure to place /tmp on a seperate partition from /,
    would it be even more secure to place it on a seperate HDD? How big
    should /tmp be?

    Here's a pretty stupid question I have, apologies for my lack of clue:
    do I have to define the size of each partition? Is it difficult to
    change them at a later date? I'll only have command-line access.

    Thanks again,

    Donnacha

    Jerry McAllister wrote:
    >>Hello, I'm new to FreeBSD and this list, my name is Donnacha, I'm an
    >>Irishman living in Edinburgh, Scotland.
    >>
    >>I have read The Complete FreeBSD's section on disk partioning but would
    >>very much appreciate some advice on how to divide up the 2 HDDs I'm
    >>getting on my new server.
    >>
    >>The server is located in a facility in the US and will be used as a Web
    >>and email server. It has an 80GB HDD and a 200GB HDD, both IDE but I'm
    >>asking for them to be placed on seperate buses.
    >>
    >>I was thinking of using the 80GB as the primary and placing / on it,
    >>while putting /var, /usr and /home on the 200GB.
    >>
    >>I'll have 2GB of RAM, so, I was thinking about putting 2GB of swap on
    >>each HDD.
    >>
    >>How does that sound. I would be very grateful for any advice you can
    >>give me before I relay my instructions to the guys doing the installation.
    >
    >
    > It depends a lot on what you leave in /usr and /var and /home.
    > It kind of looks like you will leave the 80GB drive mostly empty
    > the way you are doing things. If all your accounts and web pages
    > are really in /home and you have no databases, I would be inclined
    > to put both /usr and /var in the 80GB drive and leave the other one
    > for home directories and web pages. Since the default place for
    > databases is in /var that can make a big difference on where you put
    > it or if you take the db directory out of /var and put it somewhere
    > else, etc.
    >
    > Putting some of your swap on each drive as you have indicated
    > is a good idea.
    >
    > ////jerry
    >
    >
    >>Thanks and I look forward to participating in this community,
    >>
    >>Donnacha
    >>
    >>
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