From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 23:45: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0CC1C37B419 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 23:44:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 51868 invoked by uid 100); 5 Mar 2002 07:44:53 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15492.30579.831025.692697@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 01:44:51 -0600 To: "Patrick Fish" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: filesystems In-Reply-To: <96520056@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.48 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Patrick Fish types: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=_NextPart_000_0017_01C1C3BF.3D280F90 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Please stop sending HTML to this list. > My disk layout looks like this: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 18G 2.7G 14G 16% / > procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc > ........ > Would it be a good idea to break the major dirs into seperate = > partitions? Depends on what you're going to do with it. For people who aren't familiar with the system, I recommedn two - / and /home - so that they can reinstall the system without trashed personal data getting trashed. Without a good reason - different backup/restore strategies, firewalling between applications, different NFS export permissions, etc. - creating extra partitions just creates more things to run out of space. > If so, could i do this with fdisk WITHOUT reformatting? You don't do this with fdisk, you do it with disklabel. And yes, you're going to have to dump, reformat, and restore if you want to change the partitions. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message