Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:26:07 -0700 From: "Stephen Hansen" <stephen@cerebralmaelstrom.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Preparing for a Good Setup -- hdd partitioning Message-ID: <01f701bff120$508368a0$0200a8c0@Ryan>
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Yippie. My 4.0 CDs just came in the mail, so i'm getting more ready to start running it on my machine, but before I do, I sorta want to be completely-prepared for everything that's going to come up -- besides the basics of IRQ's and whatnot. My primary question for the time beign is -- What should my hdd layout be? I will be duel-booting between Win98 and the FreeBSD; I intend on splitting my 10gig hdd evenly between the two, I suspose. I am on a p2-400mhz w/ 128megs of ram -- how large should my swap partition be? I seem to vaguely remember in either a past FreeBSD installation or a linux one, that the program wanted to split my hdd even more, into like, /, /var, and /usr -- is that nessecary, or is there any advantages to doing so? Also, I know its possible to shrink a Fat32 partition, but is it possible to grow the FreeBSD one? In case I decide in the future that I really don't need to give Windows that much space. :) Thanks, --Stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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