Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 11:29:32 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting rid of /usr file system (was: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Message-ID: <200112161829.fBGITWM70307@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Dec 2001 09:16:20 MST." <200112161616.fBGGGKg49403@aslan.scsiguy.com> References: <200112161616.fBGGGKg49403@aslan.scsiguy.com>
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In message <200112161616.fBGGGKg49403@aslan.scsiguy.com> "Justin T. Gibbs" writes: : Has the requirement for the root partition being first in the disklabel : been removed? I prefer to have my swap partition as close to the front : of the disk as possible to take advantage of the faster tracks. If / : needs to come before swap, and / is *huge*, swap gets slower. Yes. This requirement has been removed. I have: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 307200 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 -19*) b: 1126400 307200 swap # (Cyl. 19*-89*) c: 30266460 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 -1883) e: 4194304 1433600 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 89*-350*) f: 12582912 5627904 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 350*-1133*) g: 12055644 18210816 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 1133*-1883*) My -stable system is on partitions a and e (eg / and /usr), but my -current system is on partition f... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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