Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 17:46:29 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, "Michael E. Mercer" <mmercer@ipass.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to partition my hard drives. Message-ID: <19990410074630.23423.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <19990410101856.A2142@lemis.com> of Sat, 10 Apr 1999 10:18:56 %2B0930 References: <370E7816.2D6F3285@ipass.net> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904091640540.28562-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <19990410101856.A2142@lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey writes: > >> 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. Does this advice mean you've backed away from the idea of running a single big / partition with all the OS stuff on it, or have I misunderstood what you were recommending previously? > > 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. The way I would do this would be to put a 256 MB swap on each drive (unless you have more than 256 MB of memory, in which case I'd make each swap partition physical memory + 2 MB), and leave the rest of the drive as a single partition, with / (and all the OS stuff) on the first disk and /home (or whatever you want to call it) on the second. If I had that size disks and I was using backup media that could not manage a level 0 dump of that size and I was in a situation where regular level 0 dumps were important, I'd make partition sizes suit my backup media -- but I'm not much of a believer in regular level 0 dumps, so I might not make such a decision even then. -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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