From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 21 10:32:48 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9283816EB7C for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:32:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nino80@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.249]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 555BA13C461 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:32:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nino80@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so575664ana for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:32:47 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CjUYs39HLV9/KYuVTbO0vNtWmXoQu7F3HDrpOg7FdcN+2xuUcBhTfMR/F2JwF2nlfc6WPoUWXG5CDDsB3utZHyKSwFc4wbfdWqX0+TWxyUiXlXKYanpIlN8zdMsE41w7yFmy9lf65dR/cME6HNyruyvaPZ6ErGpfhpYCxgY9Cg4= Received: by 10.114.94.1 with SMTP id r1mr2827088wab.1172053967275; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:32:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.203.7 with HTTP; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:32:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <92bcbda50702210232p4fd28196q5acccf27e7438aed@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:32:47 +0100 From: "n j" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <45DBEE4E.4060705@passagen.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200702192337.13712.jvender@owensboro.net> <45DB50EB.6010901@passagen.se> <200702201601.52229.jvender@owensboro.net> <45DBEE4E.4060705@passagen.se> Subject: Re: Best partitioning scheme for my HDD? Please advise. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:32:48 -0000 > What would be the best sizes for the > disk partitions so that I don't run out of space on any of them while also > leaving the maximum amount of space possible for the future software to be > installed? While I'd certainly go with a single partition as a solution for your setup, if you really insisted on having separate partitions, you could use a logical volume manager like Vinum which should, if I'm not mistaken, allow you to resize partitions on the fly, reducing the unused partitions and increasing the greedy ones. -- Nino