From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 5 13:32:09 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA11853 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 13:32:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from guru.phone.net (guru.phone.net [209.157.82.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA11744 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 13:31:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@phone.net) Received: (qmail 20561 invoked by uid 100); 5 Jan 1999 21:31:29 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Jan 1999 21:31:29 -0000 Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 13:31:29 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Meyer To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: max partitions in one slice? In-Reply-To: <19990106075150.N78349@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 07:51:50 +1030 > From: Greg Lehey > To: Drew Derbyshire > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: max partitions in one slice? > > On Tuesday, 5 January 1999 at 11:37:24 -0500, Drew Derbyshire wrote: > > What's the maximum number of partitions (file systems) allowed in one > > disk slice? > > 8 partitions, 7 file systems. That's at least 5 file systems too > many. Hmm - considering that two file systems is at least one two few for a Unix system, I'm curious as to what you're going to do with those few? To justify my statement, and start a discussion of file system allocation, you want the following (bare miminum): 1) OS installed software (/ & /usr) 2) Spool area (/var) 3) Things that didn't come with the OS (i.e. - your home directory). On second thought, if you don't ever spool anything (i.e. - no mail, no printer, nothing logged, etc.), you can get away without /var. That's not very likely, though.