On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 11:41:04PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
> Hi Roland,
>
> many thanks for the response!!! :-)
You're welcome!
> I waited until I had a test server setup and at least now I do..
>
> In fact I think from my usage perspective FreeBSD is not that difficult
> to understand!!
Just to give a quick overview of what is being used currently:
test# du -sch etc
1.7Metc
1.7Mtotal
test# du -sch var
1.0Mvar
1.0Mtotal
test# du -sch tmp
10Ktmp
10Ktotal
test# du -sch usr
1.0Gusr
1.0Gtotal
I think I could get away with 500MB for /var and /tmp and h
Hi Roland,
many thanks for the response!!! :-)
I waited until I had a test server setup and at least now I do..
In fact I think from my usage perspective FreeBSD is not that difficult
to understand!!!
I now have a test machine setup which I built nano and Bind 9.6.1 from
the ports colle
Roland:
If you can afford it, and if your laptop has a USB port, buy one of those
external harddisks. Plenty of room for music and movies... Also great for
backups!
Can't afford :-( I have many disks like that where I bought really cool
enclosures and the drives separately but currently am
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 09:06:09PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
> lot's of different pieces of advice rolling in now!
>
> I guess what I will do as I have a small hard disk for what I want to do
> which is to get rid of my music and few movies which are stored on my
> laptop currently, is create sep
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:25:48PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:27:11PM +, Frank Shute wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:19:54PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
> > >
> > > Many thanks guys for all the advice :-)
> > > It is really appreciated!
> > > ...
>
Many thanks again for all suggestions! :-)
[...]
For my desktop, with around 450 ports installed, I have the following lay-out;
Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad4s1a484M 93M353M21%/
/dev/ad4s1g.eli373G168G175G49%/ho
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:37:25PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
> [...]
> >
> >What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g:
> >
> ># ln -s /usr/home /home
> >
> >ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from
> >the root partition.
> >
> >So the only slices you need are /, /usr,
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:37:25PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g:
> >
> > # ln -s /usr/home /home
> >
> > ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from
> > the root partition.
> >
> > So the only slices you need are /, /
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:27:11PM +, Frank Shute wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:19:54PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
> >
> > Many thanks guys for all the advice :-)
> > It is really appreciated!
> > ...
> >
> > I reckon the proposed disk usage spec from the FreeBSD hand book should
>
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:37:25PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
>
> [...]
> >
> >What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g:
> >
> ># ln -s /usr/home /home
> >
> >ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from
> >the root partition.
> >
> >So the only slices you need are /, /usr
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Kaya Saman wrote:
How I'd slice up the disk:
2GB for /
2GB for swap
2GB for /var
34GB for /usr
Ah so BSD is slightly different from Linux in the fact that it needs to have
/var and /usr filesystems separate??
It's not required, it's just nice to do if the disk space is
[...]
What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g:
# ln -s /usr/home /home
ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from
the root partition.
So the only slices you need are /, /usr, /var and swap.
How I'd slice up the disk:
2GB for /
2GB for swap
2GB for /var
34GB fo
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:19:54PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
>
>
> Many thanks guys for all the advice :-)
>
> It is really appreciated!
>
> Sorry haven't snipped more stuff into this mail but things are a bit
> hectic here but what I will say is this; in a few hours once the BSD 8
> DVD IS
Alex de Kruijff wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 05:04:52PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kaya Saman wrote:
Also if something goes wrong with the filesystem what are the tools to
check the drive and repair errors as in Linux I use e2fsck followed by
devic
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 05:04:52PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kaya Saman wrote:
> > Also if something goes wrong with the filesystem what are the tools to
> > check the drive and repair errors as in Linux I use e2fsck followed by
> > device ID.
>
> Example af
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 04:20:10PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Kaya Saman Running with no xorg.conf is fine, but you need to make sure dbus and hal
> are started at boot. Follow the handbook for best results.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:49:31PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I attempted an install of 7.2 stable on my laptop and subsequently
> installed X11also. Now I didn't have any Xorg.conf file but each time I
> tried to start X from the CLI using the normal startx command (read the
> docume
[...]
add
dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
to your /etc/rc.conf. That will most likely clear your problem.
[...]
I will give this a go soon :-)
That's what I do with mine under FreeBSD, for both servers and workstations.
Having both servers and workstations is cool as both of
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 16:23, Kaya Saman wrote:
So, given what you've written below, you probably know more about this
stuff than I do. Cool. I will echo the advice already given, however:
add
dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
to your /etc/rc.conf. That will most likely clear your problem.
Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Kaya Saman > wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>> I attempted an install of 7.2 stable on my laptop and subsequently
>> installed X11also. Now I didn't have any Xorg.conf file but each time I
>> tried to start X from the CLI using the normal startx com
Kurt Buff wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 15:29, Kaya Saman wrote:
I see I didn't completely read your original message. Indulge me a
moment while I ramble here, and probably expose my ignorance...
Xorg/X11 <> Gnome
Gnome runs on Xorg: Xorg/Xfree runs X11
Xfree is now obsolete as Xor
The most common cause is that either hald (sysutils/hal) or dbus (devel/dbus)
isn't running. Xorg needs them both to detect mouse and keyboard. Add
dbus_enable="YES" and hald_enable="YES" to rc.conf to get them to start
automatically.
We'll see what the issue actually is - as I mentione
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 15:29, Kaya Saman wrote:
>
>> I can't speak to the rest, but WRT the GUI, I suspect you'll find it a
>> lot easier if you install a Window Manager to handle a lot of this. I
>> have found xfce4 to be a good one for me - gnome and kde were a bit
>> much. Once I installed /us
On Monday 28 December 2009 22:49:31 Kaya Saman wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> first up I hope I am in the right place as my questions are of a generic
> nature about FreeBSD as I consider myself a new user not having much
> mileage with the OS as of yet!
>
> Secondly I just wanted to wish everyone a happy C
I can't speak to the rest, but WRT the GUI, I suspect you'll find it a
lot easier if you install a Window Manager to handle a lot of this. I
have found xfce4 to be a good one for me - gnome and kde were a bit
much. Once I installed /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4 with a 'make
config-recursive' then chos
I would say ufs2 easily wins, but remember this is the
freebsd-questions list ;) There are some differences though, ufs2
uses softupdates, not journaling(journaling is available and easy to
implement via gjournal). Softupdates I believe are a little faster
than journaling, but it's drawba
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 14:42, Kaya Saman wrote:
>
>>
>> Running with no xorg.conf is fine, but you need to make sure dbus and hal
>> are started at boot. Follow the handbook for best results.
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html
>
> I'm sure I started them as this doc
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kaya Saman wrote:
> I know how strong UFS v.1 is as I use it with Solaris 9, but how about UFS
> v.2 which is what FreeBSD runs?? When compared with ext3 from a
> performance/reliability perspective which one comes on top?
>
I would say ufs2 easily wins, but reme
Running with no xorg.conf is fine, but you need to make sure dbus and
hal are started at boot. Follow the handbook for best results.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html
I'm sure I started them as this doc is exactly what I followed.. I
think if I recall correct
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Kaya Saman wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> first up I hope I am in the right place as my questions are of a generic
> nature about FreeBSD as I consider myself a new user not having much mileage
> with the OS as of yet!
>
> Secondly I just wanted to wish everyone a happy Ch
Hi guys,
first up I hope I am in the right place as my questions are of a generic
nature about FreeBSD as I consider myself a new user not having much
mileage with the OS as of yet!
Secondly I just wanted to wish everyone a happy Christmas and New Year
also since we are in that period :-)
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