Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 12:45:53 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dave Walton <walton@nordicrecords.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rearranging files Message-ID: <19990901124553.A13904@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990901025231.28744.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com>; from Dave Walton on Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 07:50:14PM -0700 References: <19990901015132.28530.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com>; <19990901112711.W13904@freebie.lemis.com> <19990901025231.28744.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com>
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On Tuesday, 31 August 1999 at 19:50:14 -0700, Dave Walton wrote: > On 1 Sep 99, at 11:27, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 31 August 1999 at 18:49:13 -0700, Dave Walton wrote: >>> As long as I'm posting... >>> I was just looking at a disk with the disklabel editor in sysinstall, >>> and saw this: >>> >>> Part Mount Size Newfs >>> ---- ----- ---- ----- >>> da0s1a <none> 64MB * >>> da0s1b swap 320MB SWAP >>> da0s1e <none> 64MB * >>> da0s1f <none> 1024MB * >>> da0s1g <none> 10240MB* >>> da0s1h <none> 10240MB* >>> >>> If I were to create another partition on that disk, it would become >>> da0s1d. Is it normal for 'd' to be the last partition created, or did I >>> somehow do something strange to make it work out that way? >> >> No, that's the way they're allocated. > > Oh, ok. Why? Historical quirk? Well, they had to be done some way. ISTR that FreeBSD and BSD/OS did it differently, so I suppose it's somebody's taste. In the first edition of CFBSD I recommended a different order from the way sysinstall does it. >> But I have great doubts that you need even as many partitions as >> you have. > > I've been around here long enough to have expected that comment > from you. :) I'm still toying with how I want to set up the machine > in question, but here are the details of what you see above: > > da0s1a / (to be mounted readonly, perhaps) > da0s1b swap (but you knew that) > da0s1e /var > da0s1f /usr (also readonly, perhaps) > da0s1g /home (quotas enabled, so separate fs) > da0s1h /where? (app data - mysql, apache, cyrus, etc) > da0s1d? /music? (mp3 archive - could go in da0s1g, but not > da0s1h. Needs quota or separate partition, because it'll tend to > overflow.) > > Any nits to pick? Well, I'd probably create one file system for /var, /usr, /home, /where and /music. You're bound to overflow one first. Of course, with partitions of that size, you need to match them to the size of your tapes, so you may have some justification in having both /usr and /home. I don't see that quotas are an adequate justification. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html 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
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