From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 23 16:16:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F4D5157D4 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 16:16:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA06409; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 08:44:34 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA41851; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 08:44:33 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 08:44:33 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Brian McGroarty Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: File system allocations Message-ID: <19990724084432.C84734@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Brian McGroarty on Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 10:34:00AM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 23 July 1999 at 10:34:00 -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: > On Friday, July 23, 1999 9:08 AM, Christopher Michaels wrote: >> On Wednesday, July 21, 1999 7:12 PM, William Melanson wrote: >>> >>> How does something like this look? >>> >>> / = 100mb >>> = 184mb >>> /usr = rest of the disk.... >>> /var = create a link pointing to /usr/var >>> /tmp = create a link poing to /usr/tmp >> >> My personal opinion is that the root filesystem is a bit excessive. I've >> always been happy with a 50mb root filesystem, were you planning on >> installing debug kernels or having a large /root directory? I didn't see this before. Yes, I agree, you could shrink / to 40 to 50 MB and put the rest in swap (which could possibly be a bit small). > Does the 1024 logical cylinder boot limitation still exist? Yes. It's a BIOS restriction, so depending on the system it may or may not bite you. The easiest way to find out is to create a root file system at the very end of the disk, do a minimal install, and see if you can boot from it. > I'm wondering if it would be feasible/desirable to simply create one > large / partition on a workstation. That's certainly an option, and it has the least number of potential problems during installation. I don't do it that way, mainly out of superstition (what happens if you have a file system crash?). Having said that, I've been running FreeBSD on multiple systems for years, and I've never had that kind of crash. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message