Jerry McAllister wrote: > Might as well start with 5.4 from scratch. It was released a couple > of days ago.
Well, you know how companies can be, it can take a while for what they've standardized on to catch up, even though 5.4 sounds a lot more stable than 5.3.
Jerry McAllister wrote: > One small modification, as someone noted, if you make a vinum or mirror, > you will probably not want the chunk of swap to be on the front of > the second drive. So, you can make it last without too much difficult.
Chuck Swiger wrote: > If you do want to mirror the boot disk, you want the first partition to > be bootable and resemble the first disk, which means you do not want to > put swap first on the 200GB drive.
So, I should make /mirror the first partition? Do I need to specifically ask them to make it bootable?
It occurs to me that, with a bootable mirror on the 2nd disk, that removes the need to create an /altroot on the 1st disk - if / becomes corrupted, I can ask them to boot from the 2nd disk. Would that work?
> Put swap inside of /mirror, instead. No need to create another partition.
So, what I'm now looking at is:
On the 80 GB drive /root 1 GB /tmp 2 GB /usr 5 GB /var 5 GB swap 2.5 GB /home All the rest
On the 200 GB drive /mirror (containing 2.5GB of swap) Same actual size as 1st HDD. /spill All the rest
Does that seem right?
One thing I remember from the books is that they suggested swap should be placed at the outer edge of each HDD, which I presume I can't do if swap is part of /mirror - is that still an important consideration?
As for placing the 2nd disk's swap in /mirror, I presume I can do that myself without bothering the installation guys about it, is that right?
Again, thanks to everyone for your patience, I really appreciate your help in getting up and running, if anyone else has advice please do share it.
Donnacha.
Chuck and Jerry, thank you so much.
Chuck - I'm going to take your advice on setting up some kind of mirror, software RAID or whatever, thanks.
Jerry - that breakdown of how you would allocate space was amazing - seriously, a better division and a better explanation than anything I've found in the FreeBSD books.
The idea of allocating almost the entire 2nd drive to /spill is great, that will give me all the flexibility I need, brilliant! Some
There are many thought of how to set up disk based on the need and also on history. Some people have habits built from when disks were small. The one difficulty of having one giant partition is making backups. Unless you use some very large media, it will take more than one piece of media (tape, etc) and that tends to discourage people from making backups.
This type of scheme makes it pretty simple to add additional large
disks later (for /spill2, /spill3, etc) if you need them too and just do some additional moving, though if you have a really big disk farm, it
begins to get too difficult to manage. Then you would have to come
up with a more sophisticated system.
One small modification, as someone noted, if you make a vinum or mirror, you will probably not want the chunk of swap to be on the front of the second drive. So, you can make it last without too much difficult.
////jerry
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