DEC ALPHA

[Robert F. Stockdale IV]

Not bad Darin. However, I'd do things slightly different.
  Such as:

  sda0=5.0mb	/boot	(boot fs, gives room for several kernels)
  sda1=523mb	/home	(should? be plenty of room for home dirs)
  sdb=4.3gig	/usr	(where all the apps will go)
  sdc=1.010gig	/	(root filesystem, includes /dev, /etc, etc.)
  sdd0=256mb	<swap>	(nice big swap space)
  sdd=170mb	/tmp	(helps limit temporary files)
  sde=426mb	/var	(gives you plenty of space for logs)

There are many other options such as load balancing.  A simple method 
for that is to keep all heavily used directories on separate drives.
Just a few thoughs.
Bob



Darin Perusich wrote:

> your first scsi disk, sda should be large enough for /. i have a redhat
> 7.1 imap email server setup and the / filesystem is only using 130mb. if
> you break everthing up efficiently that should be plenty.
> 
> here's what i would do.
> 
> sda=528mb	/ 	(root filesystem, not to much should go here)
> sdb=4.3gig	/usr	(where all the apps will go)
> sdc=1.010gig	/var	(gives you plenty of space for logs)
> sdd=426mb	<swap>	(nice big swap space)
> sde=426mb	/home	(should? be plenty of room for home dirs)
> 
> to me this would be a reasonable setup for a system. it's flexable
> enough to allow for the addition scsi storage (disk, cd, tape). in the
> event of a drive failure you would only lose that filesystem, you could
> then boot into rescue mode, off a cdrom or floppy and recover important
> files. 
> 
> as for you being able to access the drives it will be transparent to the
> user, the drives will be mounted on the appropriate directory.
> 
> 
>>All well and good to set the (Unknown)s to Linux native in diskdruid.
>>My only problem is to figure out what to put where! I have the following
>>disks to use for this system. sda=528mb, sdb=4.3gig, sdc=1.010gig, sdd=426mb
>>and sde=426mb.
>>sda is in desktop not drive tower. All pinned in order 0 through 4 and
>>terminated.
>>Now sda is way to small to put / but large enough for boot, but as Bob Meyer
>>tolled
>>me that I should just go ahead and install everything on the 4.3gig drive
>>sdb=scsi 1.
>>So if I did it that way how will I be able to access the other drives in
>>order to use them?
>>ie: Install programs & storage? Raid software? How?
>>
>>
>>>setting up the drives is personal preference, there are really no right or
>>>
>>wrong ways to setup
>>
>>>filesystems, other they one big filesystem. with that said you should at
>>>least setup /, /usr, /var, and swap, anything else is debatable.
>>>if diskdruid and/or fdisk DO NOT see all your drives you most likely
>>>have a termination problem, or a bad drive. when you boot up the machine
>>>get into the bios/eeprom what ever you want to call it. there should be
>>>a section where you can view the hardware, if you're using the DEC
>>>console type disk to probe the disk drives, or test to probe all
>>>hardware. any termination issues should come up here.
>>>
>>Did that and all showed up.
>>
>>
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>>
>>>>OK the GUI did not take care of this and I had to use fdisk to set BSD
>>>>disklables. What should I name the partition type? The BSD disklable
>>>>
>>program
>>
>>>>uses a default partition type of (Unknown) I set the letter of each
>>>>
>>drive to
>>
>>>>(a) and it states in the installation guide "To provide the initial
>>>>unallocated space, you will need to start the partitions at cylinder 2.
>>>>
>>If
>>
>>>>you do a workstation or server class installation" I'm installing a
>>>>workstation class system.
>>>>
>>>fstab(5) is the filesystem table file, it contains info on how to mount
>>>filesytems.
>>>
>>>
>>>>What is (fstab)?
>>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>Darin Perusich
>>>Unix Systems Administrator
>>>Cognigen Corp.
>>>darinper at cognigencorp.com
>>>
>>>
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