Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 21:54:27 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: "William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Documentation and similar issues with 5.3 Message-ID: <20050107205427.GB64477@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <113C217E-60D3-11D9-8564-000393768D2C@mcgillsociety.org> References: <200501031101.j03B1wtR006075@freefall.freebsd.org> <D009527A-6001-11D9-9997-000393768D2C@mcgillsociety.org> <20050106182644.GA57934@freebie.xs4all.nl> <05847D56-604E-11D9-8A59-000393768D2C@mcgillsociety.org> <20050107160308.GA63225@freebie.xs4all.nl> <113C217E-60D3-11D9-8564-000393768D2C@mcgillsociety.org>
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On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:39:22PM -0500, William H. Magill wrote.. > On 07 Jan, 2005, at 11:03, Wilko Bulte wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:47:00PM -0500, William H. Magill wrote.. > >>On 06 Jan, 2005, at 13:26, Wilko Bulte wrote: > >>>>2) Does anybody have any descriptions of "rational" disk layouts for > >>>> 4 or 9 gig drives? [Both boot and "other"] > >>>> ... especially since I have a "blue" SW shelf of "VW" drives. > >>> .. > Is there an installation "log file" where values and etc input are > recorded? Hm, no, not that I know of. > into "unspecific terminology." Thinking back, I can't remember when the > last time > was that I wound up issuing a FORMAT Unit command for any reason! O, I can: 520byte/block disks taken out of a raidbox needed a lowlevel to be usable :) > >Well, yeah... There is probably more like this stuff missing. Lemme > >see > >if I can add that info. Note that there is a generic and a Alpha > >specific The fdisk thing is now in the docs. > nothing I > have been able to find which recommends partition sizes, especially for > various No, there is not that I have ever seen. > I think I used A- 100 meg B- 2 gig D- 400 meg E-4 gig F- rest. > (I did use the "meg" and "gig" terms in the initilaization) I typically use 256MB for root, RAMsize+1Mbyte for swap, the rest for /usr. But that is for testmachines, YMMV, greatly vary I might add. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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