From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 2 13:52:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA06098 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 13:52:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA06092 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 13:52:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA28309; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 22:52:34 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA18191; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 22:52:33 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id WAA11065; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 22:50:48 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 22:50:48 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: costa@inner.cortx.com (Costa) Subject: Re: recommendation References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Costa on Jan 2, 1997 15:12:10 +0000 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Costa wrote: > currently, i am running freebsd 2.1 on a 1.2 gig scsi drive. I > partitioned my drive so that root had 300MB and usr had 800Mb and the > rest went to swap. > > I want to add a 2 gig drive and move my current usr directory to the new > drive leaving all the same. Is this the best way (and least downtime) to > handle this? Probably yes. Also, you might consider to allocate another 100 MB of swap space on the second disk. Sharing swap among spindles might speed up paging. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)