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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.sprintlink.net!gol2!usenet From: Doug Lerner <doug@gol.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Any Partition Suggestions? Date: 29 Dec 1995 02:02:33 GMT Organization: Global OnLine Japan (+81-3-5330-9385) Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4bvi7p$og3@gol2.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.243.53.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; 68K) X-URL: news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc I am going to Akihabara today to buy my second FreeBSD machine. I am informed that I need a 2nd machine because I have to have both a primary and secondary name server for my domain. (I am reading "DNS and BIND" now, so I might end up asking questions about that later on as well. (^ _^). Anyway, I want to use this new machine for all my News NNTP and also SMTP for one domain (we actually have two domains in this Class C network). I am not going to attempt a COMPLETE feed that is saved for weeks or anything like that. I am going to subscribe to newsgroups on demand from my BBS members so that we don't waste time bringing in things that nobody wants to read. Also, I think we will only keep messages for a few days to a week (depending on the groups). Any suggestions for partitioning a 1 or 2 gigabyte disk? My current FreeBSD box has a 1 gigabyte Quantum Fireball and I simply divided that into two partitions: 100MB for DOS and everything else in one huge FreeBSD partition. But that is a waste of inodes isn't it? When I configured the system, I did choose the smallest number of inode size though. How many possible files does that give me? Any partitioning recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Doug Lerner, Tokyo