The funny thing is, i actually have that book. Thanks Cyrus, i knew Linux did this but wasn't sure about FreeBSD. With Anvil, we had an immediate digital experience and all of the information that these borrowers were entering was made available to us digitally. I am looking at configuring a server myself - probably splitting swap among 2 or more 15k SCSI drives. Anvil captures data in a ready-to-use format that can power downstream tasks from document preparation to data-entry. (I think near page 16)įreeBSD can optimize on 4 disks as per Michael W. The Book "Absolute BSD: The Ultimate Guide to FreeBSD can span swap partitions itself without needing,Īnd further complicated by, RAID. I'd suggest you be careful or reconsider as if a drive dies, upon reboot I thought I'd link you to a page about choosing RAID for your swap needs on FreeBSD Then dump this into a file by issuing bsdlabel da0s1 > label Now i can write this label to the disks 2-4 X=1-3 using bsdlabel -R daXs1 labelįeedback I got this from Cyrus on 12/18/07 The a: partition and also reduce the size of the a: partition by 265. Move the old a: partition to d: and add an offset of 265 to After saving the label rerun theĮdit command so bsdlabel can do its calculations. # size offset fstype Ĭ: 4192902 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit Do this for disk 1-4 X=0-3 fdisk -BI daX & bsdlabel -wB daXs1 Make the first two bootable fdisk -b da Or to have the boot manager boot0cfg da Edit the first disk's bsdlabel bsdlabel -e da0s1 This can all be done from any writable directory.
But size adjustments probably need to be made anyway. Sample values that i used on my VMWare test box. NOTE: The numbers below don't actually use the 250GB example but rather the smaller NOTE: Cleaning out the ports reduces space by a lot, but leaving it like this provides forĮxtra room should it be needed for large upgrades. The second raid1 partition while the remainder will stay on the 1st raid1 partition. On my system this makes about 12G altogether wich splits in half nicely by moving /usr/ports and /usr/local on The boot partition as well as most of the system will reside on 2 raid1 partitions. This provides a nice blend of speed/redundancy. Will be stored on a large raid5 partition. All the static data such as music collections, photos etc.