From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 14 18:05:38 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D40DC1A for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 18:05:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jos@webrz.net) Received: from webrz.xs4all.nl (webrz.xs4all.nl [82.95.248.216]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC4DB8FC0A for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 18:05:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from webrz.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by webrz.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 174035085E; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 20:03:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.10.10.44] (chimea.webrz.net [10.10.10.44]) by webrz.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTPA id E34945083C; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 20:03:19 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <507AFEEC.2030609@webrz.net> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 20:05:32 +0200 From: Jos Chrispijn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon Subject: Re: FreeBSD9 - Fresh install (2) References: <5079ABFA.8050607@webrz.net> <20121013210513.80676821.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20121013210513.80676821.freebsd@edvax.de> X-AV-Checked: ClamAV using ClamSMTP @triton.webrz.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 18:05:38 -0000 I was intending this on my 1TB hard disk (FreeBSD only): Two slices of 500G Slice one: 1g / 4g swap 7g /var 1g /tmp 487g /var Slice two: 500g /backup I question myself why I should use a 1TB hard disk, but it came with the hardware J-) I might better use 2x350G hard disks, but the server I use can only physical contain one piece. The slice one and two idea is perhaps Windows related, but I thought if I want to update my FreeBSD9 t0, let's say 10 or 11, I only have to clean slice one and put BSD on that again (having the backup slice untouched). thanks, Jos Chrispijn Polytropon: > On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:59:22 +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote: >> When setting up my 1TB harddisk for FreeBSD 9.0, I have some questions >> about partioning: >> I think of creating two partitions of 5Gb; one for the standard FreeBSD >> file layour and a second one with a /backup slice on it. >> Does this make sense? > What exactly do you intend to backup (and why) onto a second > partition on the same disk? Sure, it is possible to do so, > but you should make yourself clear _what_ you want to do and > why, then it will imply _how_ will do it the best way -- even > though there might be more than one best way... :-) > > Also depending on your needs, 5GB may be too few to hold a full > installation of OS and programs (even though I've managed to > get a full 5.2 installation plus tons of programs on a 6 GB disk, > with 50% of free space afterwards). > > What do you do with the remaining 900 GB of the disk? :-) > > Also, please make yourself familiar with the terminology of what > a partitions and what a slice is, and see it in the proper context > of MBR vs. GPT partitioning. > > If I take your use of the TT (termini technici) literally, you > would have one partition containing everything rooted to /, and > a second partition that contains the same. You would either manually > have a backup mechanism from the 1st to the 2nd partition, or you > could configure them in some automated mirroring mechanism. But > I don't see a real use case when doing so on the _same_ disk. > Still it would be possible, and it could even be helpful in some > bad case scenario. > >