...and no, this is not a long time ago in a galaxy far far away either...
For those of you who are following my experience with FreeBSD and a hard disk failure, the is system install v2.0. If you are new to my little story, then you can catch up at the following links:
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/63763/
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/63799/
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/63815/
So after relearning a few things about installing FreeBSD, I think that this time I have it right. Moving from 10.4 to 11.1 has been kinda a pain, but it's worth it. Since I erroneously installed the system with "Dangerously Dedicated" disks, I'm going to reinstall it. Furthermore, after using the machine for a bit, I have a pretty good handle on what the partition sizes needs to be. So, here we go...
The Original:
So, with the current state of the machine, and since all software that is not part of the base system gets placed in /usr/local, and that the / partition is using 355MB (with multiple kernels) and the /usr partition is using only 887MB, I am going to leave /usr as part of the / partition and increase it to 4gb. That seems to be the only change that I need to make. So the new layout is as follows:
The system specs are
I plan on upgrading the system within the next couple of years. Since this is a i386 uniprocessor system, it should be a big upgrade in performance (I'm looking at you, make buildworld ; make buildkernel) going to amd64 and multicore.
Comments? Suggestions?
For those of you who are following my experience with FreeBSD and a hard disk failure, the is system install v2.0. If you are new to my little story, then you can catch up at the following links:
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/63763/
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/63799/
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/63815/
So after relearning a few things about installing FreeBSD, I think that this time I have it right. Moving from 10.4 to 11.1 has been kinda a pain, but it's worth it. Since I erroneously installed the system with "Dangerously Dedicated" disks, I'm going to reinstall it. Furthermore, after using the machine for a bit, I have a pretty good handle on what the partition sizes needs to be. So, here we go...
The Original:
Code:
[LIST]
[*]Disk ada0 (40GB)
[LIST]
[*]/ 2gb 355MB
[*]swap 2gb
[*]/var 4gb 187MB
[*]/tmp 4gb 43MB
[*]/usr 8gb 887MB
[*]/home Rest of Disk
[/LIST]
[*]Disk ada1 (120GB)
[LIST]
[*]/usr/src 4gb 2485MB
[*]swap 2gb
[*]/usr/obj 8gb 4605MB
[*]/usr/doc 4gb 1106MB
[*]/usr/ports 8gb 1739MB
[*]/usr/local Rest of Disk
[/LIST]
[/LIST]
So, with the current state of the machine, and since all software that is not part of the base system gets placed in /usr/local, and that the / partition is using 355MB (with multiple kernels) and the /usr partition is using only 887MB, I am going to leave /usr as part of the / partition and increase it to 4gb. That seems to be the only change that I need to make. So the new layout is as follows:
Code:
[LIST]
[*]Disk ada0 (40GB)
[LIST]
[*]/ 4gb
[*]swap 2gb
[*]/var 4gb
[*]/tmp 4gb
[*]/home Rest of Disk
[/LIST]
[*]Disk ada1 (120GB)
[LIST]
[*]/usr/src 4gb
[*]swap 2gb
[*]/usr/obj 8gb
[*]/usr/doc 4gb
[*]/usr/ports 8gb
[*]/usr/local Rest of Disk
[/LIST]
[/LIST]
The system specs are
Code:
[LIST]
[*]2001 Custom Built Machine
[*]AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1400MHZ
[*]2GB RAM
[*]3dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP Video Card
[*]40GB PATA HD
[*]120GB PATA HD
[*]ATAPI DVD Writer
[*]ATAPI Iomega ZIP-100 drive (ATAPI Floppy)
[/LIST]
I plan on upgrading the system within the next couple of years. Since this is a i386 uniprocessor system, it should be a big upgrade in performance (I'm looking at you, make buildworld ; make buildkernel) going to amd64 and multicore.
Comments? Suggestions?