DEC ALPHA

[Darin Perusich]

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.
> 
> >
> <---------------------------------snip--------------------------------------
> -------------------------------->
> > > 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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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com