From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 10 1:21:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alice.gba.oz.au (gba-254.tmx.com.au [203.9.155.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A275515083 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 01:21:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au) Received: (qmail 23424 invoked by uid 1001); 10 Apr 1999 07:46:30 -0000 Message-ID: <19990410074630.23423.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.03 20-Sep-1998 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 17:46:29 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Greg Lehey Cc: Doug White , "Michael E. Mercer" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to partition my hard drives. References: <370E7816.2D6F3285@ipass.net> <19990410101856.A2142@lemis.com> In-reply-to: <19990410101856.A2142@lemis.com> of Sat, 10 Apr 1999 10:18:56 +0930 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey writes: > >> I am excited, I will be getting a dual pentium 450 machine, > >> with 2 8G hard drives. I would like some advice as to how I should > >> partition the 2 drives. > > > > However you want. :-) I would suggest a separate / (~200MB or so), > > I'd suggest that's overly generous. In the future, debug kernels may > become the norm, so it's probably reasonable to make / 60 or 70 MB. Does this advice mean you've backed away from the idea of running a single big / partition with all the OS stuff on it, or have I misunderstood what you were recommending previously? > > then make the rest giant partitions. If you want to have shared > > space for NFSing or to make backups easier, you can hip it up into > > chunks. > > Put a swap partition on each drive (128 MB on each) and make the rest > of each drive a single file system. If I were doing this, I'd call > the second file system on the first disk /usr, and the file system on > the second disk /home. The way I would do this would be to put a 256 MB swap on each drive (unless you have more than 256 MB of memory, in which case I'd make each swap partition physical memory + 2 MB), and leave the rest of the drive as a single partition, with / (and all the OS stuff) on the first disk and /home (or whatever you want to call it) on the second. If I had that size disks and I was using backup media that could not manage a level 0 dump of that size and I was in a situation where regular level 0 dumps were important, I'd make partition sizes suit my backup media -- but I'm not much of a believer in regular level 0 dumps, so I might not make such a decision even then. -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message