From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 17:48:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3446937B788 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 17:48:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.0/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e7H0mQh20792; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 18:48:26 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008170048.e7H0mQh20792@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "Michael J. Ruhl" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: large hard drive In-Reply-To: <399B3499.6A018F53@network-alchemy.com> From: Chris Fedde Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 18:48:26 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 17:40:57 -0700 "Michael J. Ruhl" wrote: +------------------ | Howdy, | | I am considering buying a 45G hard drive as a secondary drive in my | server. It occured to me that there might be some limitations to the | size of a hard drive for BSD so I thought I would ask the following | questions. :) | | 1) Can I use the drive as one big slice? | 2) Would it be better for (performance, maintance, etc) to carve the | disk up into smaller slices? | | Thanks, | | Mike +------------------ You can use the drive as one big slice if you choose to. You can also carve it up if your application requires it. Personaly I'd make one big partition, mount it as /disk/1 and then move things like /usr/src and /usr/ports to it using pax and symbolic links. chris -- Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message