From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 25 12:57:37 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 42E01714 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:57:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm3.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com (nm3.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com [77.238.189.60]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7903B8FC13 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:57:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [77.238.189.48] by nm3.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Nov 2012 12:57:29 -0000 Received: from [217.146.189.64] by tm1.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Nov 2012 12:57:29 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp144.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Nov 2012 12:57:29 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s1024; t=1353848249; bh=5z2mVYe4As9cUUe2x5mIbn3UC+ru3ATpTtxG9sBh7wM=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Date:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=BEEg9TFqt94RnjogMUHqpwWQp3H1pIHbPozEgu5dD4U9uPHKLFvGF2egy0DrX/RGPc7MI0s1wi8YZqTbucF3qyRsZu2BkHly+yM2s8jopS49gRZokYlFYIvhENCU26VSWJrTbuS6vEPgyfI3PmZxC6lTehkKEYyVn8/kYzM4lxg= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 310815.93668.bm@smtp144.mail.ird.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: .u0wWEMVM1kuBBirUElteQR.tEMG3rFV6rmGxwD3GhVnh.c cQzVwv_qDszzh7v1zBc1W4Tt8jf96y0KNURrN0_50ahVNQFFJSilZLeW9fE2 xJmEeC9Yj4B8w_UkYf5exeCB9jmbeZ4kS3fR0Dks8vhnDQ_nhPKwZny8wMoD QcBMrWUeHUxa2Xcvf2zMxjz3GbtsU70Cw1txmAkhhrC7FEIrBhY24hNBkiMp P_lQ0XLyX9Fkek.4G.cX5cAo_diWKO1iqVIJdPHCN4D0AVubMIakn0StFz.v fzHxlEUTWXBboxcgZyHnkEBY3r6M7yGqTiYMEsPjpmfDu64gtHI1jED3S1Et dk0dpfYJjTQLBl86h2fbHL7yKWCzZAwnihHbHJT98OMPJ5zXddapDuEV15Ni JTAqCXX2Zb_dQ25pBO7bF0TIiInqt3SFG6LdB3iZrrTd.kbVJ0IPCtcXBL7f I_P_oByTlXH2ZURL6IOSluYr6n6jxglo2l0zRzPyqgCBfvX7Y95goynqZcIh edJetOsUgmSFWgPajrebNS80- X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Received: from [85.182.22.141] (ralf.mardorf@85.182.22.141 with login) by smtp144.mail.ird.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Nov 2012 04:57:29 -0800 PST Message-ID: <1353848249.2508.41.camel@q> Subject: Re: Manually partitioning using gpart From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:57:29 +0100 In-Reply-To: <50B20FD9.9070405@bnrlabs.com> References: <1353842774.2508.18.camel@q> <50B20FD9.9070405@bnrlabs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.0-0ubuntu3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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, 25 Nov 2012 12:57:37 -0000 I'm reading http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html at the moment. Seemingly there are many outdated howtos first hits for searching with Google. I frst read 64k for boot and now 512k. IIUC "Install the GPT bootcode into the boot partition" has to be done and is independent of the GRUB in the MBR. On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 13:32 +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote: > On 2012.11.25 12:26, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Here I already don't understand how large the swap should be. Really 2 * > > size of the RAM? > It depends on use patterns and the amount of RAM in your computer. 1.5* > to 2* installed memory is a traditional "works for most" value, but I > feel it's outdated for 64-bit machines with 8 GB or more. It's a 64-bit machine with 4GB RAM. > > I also don't know if 256k is a sane alignment value, I just copied this > > from a howto. > If you're using a single, not too recent-and-huge hard drive, 512 bits > (that is, no alignment) is fine. > If you have an Advanced Format Drive or you don't know if you do, use 4k. > If you have an underlying RAID array, 256k is a better choice. > If it's an SSD, go with 4 MB to avoid taking any chances with > performance over time. No RAID, a modern SATA drives, so 4k seems to be the way to go. Thank you. Regards, Ralf