Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 10:18:56 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, "Michael E. Mercer" <mmercer@ipass.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to partition my hard drives. Message-ID: <19990410101856.A2142@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904091640540.28562-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 04:42:27PM -0700 References: <370E7816.2D6F3285@ipass.net> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904091640540.28562-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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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
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