FYI, new install of FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 with docs, src, ports,, (basic standard full install) ended up using 2.5g HD space. The new installer defaults entire drive to / slice, in fact the entire installer is quite different that previous versions, much easier it seems. portsnap fetch portsnap extract portsnap upgrade (after that just 'portsnap fetch update' to get latest ports) whereis portupgrade cd /usr/ports make quicksearch name=portupgrade cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade; mak...

Always leave the 3 primary partitions as large ones, to use for OS's that must be installed on primary Remeber, max 15 partitions (or is it 14, sda14?) If you have multiple drives, use only 1 swap to save partition numbers Pick 1 super small fast distro as your main distro which uses /boot. (or not? just grib-install to boot part?) Very Important (see Differences in partition formatting below) Format all drives and partition with the same OS, newer e2fs formatters are incompatible, grub won't b...

InnoDB provides MySQL with a transaction-safe (ACID compliant) storage engine that has commit, rollback, and crash recovery capabilities. However, it cannot do so if the underlying operating system or hardware does not work as advertised. Many operating systems or disk subsystems may delay or reorder write operations to improve performance. On some operating systems, the very system call that should wait until all unwritten data for a file has been flushed - fsync() - might actually return befo...

Used for mounting a folder over SSH (Secure Shell File System). So I can map drives from a remote linux server. From http:www.linuxinsight.com/sshfs_secure_and_transparent_access_to_remote_filesystems.html apt-get install sshfs or yum install fuse-sshfs Finally, as sshfs is designed to be used by regular users (not under superuser privileges) you should add yourself (and possibly others) to the fuse system group. Something like this should do: usermod -a -G fuse You must logout and login again...

Hard drive partition management in Linux Partition Drives Format Drives I don't have to tell you to be careful, everyone deletes a hard drive at some point, no doubt you have too. Make sure you get the right drive letter (sda or sdb or sdc...). I will substitute with x (sdx) This example will create a swap, a root partition for a linux install, and a large home partition. I am using a new seagate 750g SATAII HD. fdisk -l Note: this does not format the drive, just partitions it. fdisk /dev/sdx m...

Overview of the nfs server options I choose See man exportfs and http:www.troubleshooters.com/linux/nfs.htm for NFS server option details. Also CentOS docs are great for NFS client/serve details http:www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-nfs.html secure server must be started by root because it will use ports lower than 1024 rw enable read and write sync data must be fully synced to disk, this prevents corruption if a server crashes no_wdelay I use this because my nfs re...