Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 14:09:19 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: BWS - Offwhite <brennan@offwhite.net> Cc: Lanny Baron <lnb@heretic.cybertouch.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: size of slices Message-ID: <20000529140919.A2718@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005282302120.84728-100000@home.offwhite.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005282340240.659-100000@heretic.cybertouch.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005282302120.84728-100000@home.offwhite.net>
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On Sunday, 28 May 2000 at 23:08:22 -0500, BWS - Offwhite wrote: > On Sun, 28 May 2000, Lanny Baron wrote: >> >> I wonder why when installing FreeBSD, when systinstall starts up, >> and asks for partion (or slice) sizes, if you have a 20 or 30 GB >> drive, you can tell it to use 10GB for say /usr or make a >> filesystem called data and tell it to be 10 or 12 GB. >> >> Is there some sort of limitation on sizes of filesystems? There's currently a 1 TB limit. When it becomes an issue (or maybe before) it will be lifted. > There seems to be some limitations, and I am not sure what they are > exactly. A recent message on the list mentions breaking a 40gig drive > into a 30gig and 10gig partition. That has nothing to do with limitations on file system sizes. > Personally, I wanted a ton of disk space in one place I would use a > hardware RAID. You'll still need a file system. > Having a very large partition seems like a bad idea for some > intangible reason. I prefer partitions between 4 and 10gigs which > allows me to move user directories to other partitions as the /home > partition gets to be a bit too full. I don't understand this logic. If you used a larger partition, you would presumably not need to move directories around. > For example, I have a FreeBSD box at home which has a /home > partition which is 3 gig large. Since I have been pulling down many > mp3 files I run out of space quite often as my collection grows. > Today I moved 1.8 gigs of mp3 files to /export2 which is a 5 gig > partition which will now let me download many more files. And if the /home partition had been 8 GB, you wouldn't have had to do anything. > Of course I could have created a large 20 gig partition, but I like > the fact that I get an early warning that the disk space is being > used up. Ah. It's a complicated warning. > Perhaps my methods are a bit quirky. Maybe someone can offer a > better way to go. It looks to me as if you need to look at quotas. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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