Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 08:44:33 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brian McGroarty <BMCGROARTY@high-voltage.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: File system allocations Message-ID: <19990724084432.C84734@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <AAFA6668FA40D31186D30008C7333C82@high-voltage.com>; from Brian McGroarty on Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 10:34:00AM -0600 References: <AAFA6668FA40D31186D30008C7333C82@high-voltage.com>
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On Friday, 23 July 1999 at 10:34:00 -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: > On Friday, July 23, 1999 9:08 AM, Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> wrote: >> On Wednesday, July 21, 1999 7:12 PM, William Melanson <wjm@gate.net> wrote: >>> >>> How does something like this look? >>> >>> / = 100mb >>> <swap> = 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
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