My Original post: I did search the faq's first but didn't find anything on this. I have two internal 2.1 gig drives, two external 2.1 gig drives (in seperate cases) then 6 9 gig drives in one case on a Utra 1 (non-E). I want to install solaris 8 on this machine and wanted to know the most efficient setup for the os. I was thinking of / and swap on disk 1 of the internal, /usr and /var on disk 2 of the internal and /usr/local on the first external because this machine will have a lot of open source software installed and used on it. Is there a better way of laying these disks out? Thank you to: Mike's List Frank Fvrster John Julian Dave Harrington Stan Pietkiewicz Karl Vogel The consensus was that I was on the right track with this and to make swap 1.5 times of memory, if not more, depending on the applications that are being run. The swap partitions should also be on slice 0 of each disk, and I should have swap spread out on at least 3 of the disks. It was also suggested to mount some or all of your drives with the "noatime" and "logging" options to get a huge performance boost _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Feb 19 12:59:06 2003
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