Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 04:20:34 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Robin Smith <rasmith@aristotle.tamu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How should I partition 2 80 gig drives? Message-ID: <20050905012034.GA81937@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <200509050112.j851C65D030345@aristotle.tamu.edu> References: <38br38h4lq.r38@mail.opusnet.com> <200509050112.j851C65D030345@aristotle.tamu.edu>
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On 2005-09-04 20:12, Robin Smith <rasmith@aristotle.tamu.edu> wrote: > bob self <bobself@charter.net> writes: > > I want to set up FreeBSD 5.4 Release to fully use 2 80 gig hard > > drives. I'm not sure how I should set these up in disklabel editor. > > I just want to use this as a general purpose machine. > > I would recommend putting /usr/local as well as /usr/home on their own > partitions. It greatly facilitates system upgrades if you have a large > number of users and/or a great many installed ports. tuning(7) has a good section on disk partitioning too, that may be of interest. I recently read it again, and I can say that a lot of what it contains is still valid and useful, years after the initial manpage was imported by Matt Dillon.
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