HOWTO: Multi Disk System Tuning: Appendix I: Example III: SPARC Solaris

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## 29. Appendix I: Example III: SPARC Solaris

The following section is the basic design used at work for a number of Sun SPARC servers running Solaris 2.5.1 in an industrial development environment. It serves a number of database and cad applications in addition to the normal services such as mail.

Simplicity is emphasized here so `/usr/lib` has not been split off from `/usr`.

This is the basic layout, planned for about 100 users.

> `

>        Drive:        SCSI 0                      SCSI 1

>        Partition     Size (MB)   Mount point    Size (MB)   Mount point

>          0           160         swap           160         swap
>          1           100         /tmp           100         /var/tmp
>          2           400         /usr
>          3           100         /
>          4            50         /var
>          5
>          6           remainder   /local0        remainder   /local1

> `

Due to specific requirements at this place it is at times necessary to have large partitions available on a short notice. Therefore drive 0 is given as many tasks as feasible, leaving a large `/local1` partition.

This setup has been in use for some time now and found satisfactorily.

For a more general and balanced system it would be better to swap `/tmp` and `/var/tmp` and then move `/var` to drive 1.

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