Something else to think about: filesystem access
speed. That is, read/write head movement on your
drive.
I used to have large partitions -- then I made the
mistake of thinking about r/w head movement Yes, anal
-- I know :)
If you have partitions that are incredible in size
with free space -- your r/w head has to move past that
to get to the data on adjacent partitions. It would
seem to me that this would hurt performance a bit.
So, I cut most of them in half in hopes of boosting
disk read performance -- closing the gaps, if you
will.
If one partition grows, no problem! I have all of
mine on seperate partitions -- so I can reallocate
space to any partition painlessly.
I'm just a newbie to this, though. Any experts have
some good input to share?
My $.01 -- Chris
--- Ryan Joffs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Aloha Brian,
>
> There are some things you want to take into
> consideration when
> setting up solaris. which partitions are
> dynamic.which are
> static.
>
> / reletively static if you break out /var and /opt
> and any user
> data /home
> /var is the most dynamic partion. make it its own
> partition I set
> this to at least 500 meg to 1 gig.
> /opt is where packages are installed give it some
> good room to
> grow. I usually give this the same or more that
> /var.
>
> /usr/openwin is where the openwindows packages are
> installed.
> some say you should break this out as well I don't
> usually. if
> you do it reduces the size required by the /
> partition
>
> /tmp your swap partition. I set this to double your
> ram. if you
> run out of swap space your server will crash the
> same goes for
> the / partition.
>
> here is how my partitions look
> 0 root wm 0 - 3657 1.76GB
> (3658/0/0) 3687264
> 1 swap wu 3658 - 5283 800.30MB
> (1626/0/0)
> 1639008
> 2 backup wm 0 - 17659 8.49GB
> (17660/0/0)
> 17801280
> 3 var wm 5284 - 8969
> 1.77GB
> (3686/0/0) 3715488
> 4 unassigned wm 0 0
> (0/0/0)
> 0
> 5 opt wm 8970 - 14814
> 2.81GB
> (5845/0/0) 5891760
> 6 home wm 14815 - 17659 1.37GB
> (2845/0/0) 2867760
> 7 unassigned wm 0 0
> (0/0/0)
> 0
>
>
> df -k
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 1785654 466249 1265836 27%
> /
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 1389006 477864 855582 36%
> /export/home
> /proc 0 0 0 0%
> /proc
> fd 0 0 0 0%
> /dev/fd
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 1799262 2096 1743189 1%
> /var
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5 2883302 484197 2341439 18%
> /opt
> swap 852688 824 851864 1%
> /tmp
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Tan Wee Beng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 2:44 AM
> Subject: [FW1] Partition for Solaris
>
>
> >
> > Hi,
> > I'm installing CP on a Solaris machine for the
> first time.Can
> someone
> > supply me with info on how to partition the
> harddisk,for
> example size per
> > partition???My customer requirement is to store
> the logs for a
> year but i'm
> > not too sure where exactly are the logs store.Is
> it in the /opt
> parition or
> > /var partition??Is there any standard
> practice??Thanks.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> >
>
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