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Date:      Fri, 9 Apr 1999 16:42:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Michael E. Mercer" <mmercer@ipass.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to partition my hard drives.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904091640540.28562-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <370E7816.2D6F3285@ipass.net>

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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Michael E. Mercer wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I am excited, I will be getting a dual pentium 450 machine,
> with 2 8G hard drives. I would like some advice as to how I should
> partition the 2 drives. 

However you want. :-)  I would suggest a separate  / (~200MB or so), then
make the rest giant partitions.  If you want to have shared space for
NFSing or to make backups easier, you can hip it up into chunks.

> ps: I asked earlier, however I hastily removed my new mail,
> without checking for comments. I use ppp -ddial to connect to
> my ISP. Is there an easy way to find out what IP address they
> assigned to me is, without going into pppctl and doing show ipcp?

ifconfig tun0 will tell you.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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