Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 13:31:29 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: max partitions in one slice? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901051324120.7183-100000@guru.phone.net> In-Reply-To: <19990106075150.N78349@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 07:51:50 +1030 > From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> > To: Drew Derbyshire <ahd@comversens.com> > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: max partitions in one slice? > > On Tuesday, 5 January 1999 at 11:37:24 -0500, Drew Derbyshire wrote: > > What's the maximum number of partitions (file systems) allowed in one > > disk slice? > > 8 partitions, 7 file systems. That's at least 5 file systems too > many. Hmm - considering that two file systems is at least one two few for a Unix system, I'm curious as to what you're going to do with those few? To justify my statement, and start a discussion of file system allocation, you want the following (bare miminum): 1) OS installed software (/ & /usr) 2) Spool area (/var) 3) Things that didn't come with the OS (i.e. - your home directory). On second thought, if you don't ever spool anything (i.e. - no mail, no printer, nothing logged, etc.), you can get away without /var. That's not very likely, though. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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