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Date:      Thu, 2 Jan 1997 22:50:48 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        costa@inner.cortx.com (Costa)
Subject:   Re: recommendation
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970102225048.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970102150737.7422A-100000@inner.cortx.com>; from Costa on Jan 2, 1997 15:12:10 %2B0000
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970102150737.7422A-100000@inner.cortx.com>

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As Costa wrote:

> currently, i am running freebsd 2.1 on a 1.2 gig scsi drive.  I 
> partitioned my drive so that root had 300MB and usr had 800Mb and the 
> rest went to swap.  
> 
> I want to add a 2 gig drive and move my current usr directory to the new 
> drive leaving all the same.  Is this the best way (and least downtime) to 
> handle this?

Probably yes.  Also, you might consider to allocate another 100 MB of
swap space on the second disk.  Sharing swap among spindles might
speed up paging.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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