From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 9 17:51:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43D5214DD5 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 17:51:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA29901; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 10:19:04 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA34949; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 10:18:57 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990410101856.A2142@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 10:18:56 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Doug White , "Michael E. Mercer" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to partition my hard drives. References: <370E7816.2D6F3285@ipass.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 04:42:27PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 9 April 1999 at 16:42:27 -0700, Doug White wrote: > 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), I'd suggest that's overly generous. In the future, debug kernels may become the norm, so it's probably reasonable to make / 60 or 70 MB. > 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. Put a swap partition on each drive (128 MB on each) and make the rest of each drive a single file system. If I were doing this, I'd call the second file system on the first disk /usr, and the file system on the second disk /home. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message