Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 23:08:22 -0500 (CDT) From: BWS - Offwhite <brennan@offwhite.net> To: Lanny Baron <lnb@heretic.cybertouch.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: size of slices Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005282302120.84728-100000@home.offwhite.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005282340240.659-100000@heretic.cybertouch.org>
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There seems to be some limitations, and I am not sure what they are exactly. A recent message on the list mentions breaking a 40gig drive into a 30gig and 10gig partition. Personally, I wanted a ton of disk space in one place I would use a hardware RAID. Having a very large partition seems like a bad idea for some intangible reason. I prefer partitions between 4 and 10gigs which allows me to move user directories to other partitions as the /home partition gets to be a bit too full. For example, I have a FreeBSD box at home which has a /home partition which is 3 gig large. Since I have been pulling down many mp3 files I run out of space quite often as my collection grows. Today I moved 1.8 gigs of mp3 files to /export2 which is a 5 gig partition which will now let me download many more files. Of course I could have created a large 20 gig partition, but I like the fact that I get an early warning that the disk space is being used up. Perhaps my methods are a bit quirky. Maybe someone can offer a better way to go. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com Microsoft: Will you get a macro virus today? http://www.greasydaemon.com/noms/ <- Why avoid MS? On Sun, 28 May 2000, Lanny Baron wrote: > Hello Fellow FreeBSD'ers > > I wonder why when installing FreeBSD, when systinstall starts up, and asks > for partion (or slice) sizes, if you have a 20 or 30 GB drive, you can > tell it to use 10GB for say /usr or make a filesystem called data and tell > it to be 10 or 12 GB. > > Is there some sort of limitation on sizes of filesystems? > > TIA > > --lanny > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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