Re: Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

2007-09-26 Thread Federico Lorenzi
On 9/26/07, Aliya Harbouri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm setting up a jailed server. I'm hoping to eventually use sysutils/ezjail to deaden the pain a bit! I gave that a shot once, but I found manual jail configuration to be better. First step, have to get the disks partitioned! They're

Re: Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

2007-09-26 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 15:33:12 Federico Lorenzi wrote: On 9/26/07, Aliya Harbouri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm setting up a jailed server. I'm hoping to eventually use sysutils/ezjail to deaden the pain a bit! I gave that a shot once, but I found manual jail configuration

Re: Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

2007-09-26 Thread Aliya Harbouri
drive 2: / 2GB A bit big, but fine I though so, but with drives this big cheap ... :-) /boot 2GB Nope, FreeBSD doesn't need / want a /boot I didn't realize :-/ Just to be sure, you DO mean it doesn't want a separate slice/partition,

Re: Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

2007-09-26 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 22:20:11 Aliya Harbouri wrote: Hi! I'm setting up a jailed server. I'm hoping to eventually use sysutils/ezjail to deaden the pain a bit! First step, have to get the disks partitioned! They're unpacked, at least ;-) I've read lots of comments like, You

Re: Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

2007-09-26 Thread Federico Lorenzi
On 9/26/07, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 26 September 2007 22:20:11 Aliya Harbouri wrote: Hi! I'm setting up a jailed server. I'm hoping to eventually use sysutils/ezjail to deaden the pain a bit! First step, have to get the disks partitioned! They're unpacked, at least

Re: Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

2007-09-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 02:02:09PM -0700, Aliya Harbouri wrote: drive 2: / 2GB A bit big, but fine I though so, but with drives this big cheap ... :-) /boot 2GB Nope, FreeBSD doesn't need / want a /boot I didn't realize :-/

Re: Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

2007-09-26 Thread Aliya Harbouri
Hi guys! Some great ideas advice. Thanks a lot :-) /boot *needs* to be on /. A loader looks for [bootdisk][bootslice] [a]/boot/loader. Ok, gotcha. Since you have 2 physical drives, you may want to do 8G on each drive. In the rare case it's needed, your system is in trouble and

Re: Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

2007-09-26 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 23:40:26 Aliya Harbouri wrote: I did not know I COULD split swap. Hum. How does the system use/allocate each across the split ... Ok, ok. That's what Googling's for :-) Actually, swapon(8) tells a lot ;) Unless you're a packrat where logs are concerned,