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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!ix.netcom.com!news.webspan.net!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as news-server?? Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 02:26:45 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3258CCD5.ABD322C@FreeBSD.org> References: <537ddl$3cc@amd40.wecs.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Duane Eddingfield <duane@amd40.wecs.org> Duane Eddingfield wrote: > They have ordered a Quantum 2.7 Gig and 2 Quantum Barracudas > which are 4.3 Gig each if I remember correctly. > > My question is: What's a good partitioning scheme? If it were me, I'd reserve about 700MB for the OS (so I could play with new versions of inn, have a reasonable /usr/local on the machine, etc) and take the rest (2x 4.3 and 2gb from quantum) as 3 large filesystems, which you can partition and mount from the installer then "sacrifice" later for ccd (e.g. take the entries out of /etc/fstab and combine the 3 filesystems into one with ccdconfig(8) after the system is up). See the man pages for ccd(4) and ccdconfig(8) - they're pretty self-explanatory. Once you have your mongo 10.6Gb partition created from this, just mount /var/spool/news on it and you're on your way. Oh yeah, also don't forget to create those 3 filesystems with more than the default set of inodes. You can set the newfs options in the label editor, and a good value to add might be `-i 1024' or even `-i 768'. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project