From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 18:32:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from laxmls02.socal.rr.com (laxmls02.socal.rr.com [24.30.163.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FAEE37B82F for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:32:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@cerebralmaelstrom.com) Received: from Ryan (sc-24-160-53-72.socal.rr.com [24.160.53.72]) by laxmls02.socal.rr.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id e6J1Vk027701 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:31:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <01f701bff120$508368a0$0200a8c0@Ryan> From: "Stephen Hansen" To: Subject: Preparing for a Good Setup -- hdd partitioning Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:26:07 -0700 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yippie. My 4.0 CDs just came in the mail, so i'm getting more ready to start running it on my machine, but before I do, I sorta want to be completely-prepared for everything that's going to come up -- besides the basics of IRQ's and whatnot. My primary question for the time beign is -- What should my hdd layout be? I will be duel-booting between Win98 and the FreeBSD; I intend on splitting my 10gig hdd evenly between the two, I suspose. I am on a p2-400mhz w/ 128megs of ram -- how large should my swap partition be? I seem to vaguely remember in either a past FreeBSD installation or a linux one, that the program wanted to split my hdd even more, into like, /, /var, and /usr -- is that nessecary, or is there any advantages to doing so? Also, I know its possible to shrink a Fat32 partition, but is it possible to grow the FreeBSD one? In case I decide in the future that I really don't need to give Windows that much space. :) Thanks, --Stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message