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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Divvy a hard disk Post 23141 by Kelam_Magnus on Monday 17th of June 2002 04:58:48 PM
Old 06-17-2002
Personally, I would use MB and stay away from blocks. Also, Those things you quoted are only guidelines and minimums.

In my environment, we do it like this. Remember these are only one way to do this. Also, everything depends on the OS flavor and whatever you have running on the box and how big of a system it is.


/ .................250MB.
/var ............1600MB. ( 1.6GB)
/usr.............1600MB.
/opt.............1000MB.
/home..........500MB to 1.5GB
/tmp.............2000MB to 4000MB ( 2GB to 4GB) Depends on demands of Application running on box. Link /var/tmp to /tmp so /var doens't fill up.

That adds up to 6.5GB to 8GB, which leaves 2GB to 3.5 for other things.

primary swap ( at least 2x to 3x of RAM) and 2ndary swap for OS same size as primary swap.
also, have a root swap in the root volume and another secondary swap for everything else.

dump space ( at least 30% to 50% of RAM)

crash space ( same as dump different place) Some OS are configured to use swap space as crash for system crashes. I would use the secondary swap, not root swap.

Hope this Helps you.

Smilie Smilie
 

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hdio(7I)							  Ioctl Requests							  hdio(7I)

NAME
hdio - SMD and IPI disk control operations SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/hdio.h> DESCRIPTION
Note - The SMC and IPI drivers have been discontinued. dkio(7I) is now the preferred method for retrieving disk information. The SMD and IPI disk drivers supplied with this release support a set of ioctl(2) requests for diagnostics and bad sector information. Basic to these ioctl() requests are the definitions in <sys/hdio.h>. IOCTLS
HDKIOCGTYPE The argument is a pointer to a hdk_type structure (described below). This ioctl() gets specific information from the hard disk. HDKIOCSTYPE The argument is a pointer to a hdk_type structure (described below). This ioctl() sets specific information about the hard disk. /* * Used for drive info */ struct hdk_type { ushort_t hdkt_hsect; /* hard sector count (read only) */ ushort_t hdkt_promrev; /* prom revision (read only) */ uchar_t hdkt_drtype; /* drive type (ctlr specific) */ uchar_t hdkt_drstat; /* drive status (ctlr specific, ro) */ }; HDKIOCGBAD The argument is a pointer to a hdk_badmap structure (described below). This ioctl() is used to get the bad sector map from the disk. HDKIOCSBAD The argument is a pointer to a hdk_badmap structure (described below). This ioctl() is used to set the bad sector map on the disk. /* * Used for bad sector map */ struct hdk_badmap { caddr_t hdkb_bufaddr; /* address of user's map buffer */ }; HDKIOCGDIAG The argument is a pointer to a hdk_diag structure (described below). This ioctl() gets the most recent command that failed along with the sector and error number from the hard disk. /* * Used for disk diagnostics */ struct hdk_diag { ushort_t hdkd_errcmd; /* most recent command in error */ daddr_t hdkd_errsect; /* most recent sector in error */ uchar_t hdkd_errno; /* most recent error number */ uchar_t hdkd_severe; /* severity of most recent error */ }; SEE ALSO
ioctl(2), dkio(7I) SunOS 5.10 13 Aug 2002 hdio(7I)
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