Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 15:23:15 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Lanny Baron <lnb@heretic.cybertouch.org> Cc: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, BWS - Offwhite <brennan@offwhite.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: size of slices Message-ID: <393590D3.19EA51C6@3-cities.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005311121100.18076-100000@heretic.cybertouch.org>
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Lanny Baron wrote: > > Hello Christoph, > Well my original question stills has no answer nor a solution. On a single > 20 GB h/d, I am unable, when installing from scratch, to select in the > partition editor a slice for example of 12 GB for /usr. I would really > like to know just how to be able to get this done without the message from > the partition editor saying "size too big". Thus causing me to make a > bunch of partions as is shown: > > lnb@heretic:~$ df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 99063 26991 64147 30% / > /dev/ad0s4g 2032623 1574956 295058 84% /data > /dev/ad0s4e 2480982 153064 2129440 7% /home > /dev/ad0s4h 6076005 2722946 2866979 49% /shared > /dev/ad0s3g 353023 1755 323027 1% /tmp > /dev/ad0s3e 5081581 1377594 3297461 29% /usr > /dev/ad0s4f 2032623 1 1870013 0% /usr/ftp > /dev/ad0s3f 1016303 5486 929513 1% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > It their is a way to accomplish this, please, by all means tell me what > must be done. > > I wonder what good reason there is for limitations on the size of each > slice when the installer shows the amount of space left, yet you cannot > use it in total. > > >From a business perspective, if this drive was used for just data besides > the OS installed I would have a small /usr and swap with tmp and var > symlinked and all of the remaining space allocated to /data presumably > for a multitude of users accessing and writing to what ever was permitted > under /data. But as you see this can't be accomplished. I kind of wonder if you are trying to use up all of the cylinder's because it never lets you have the whole disk. My system is as follow: kent@opal$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s3a 99183 35689 55560 39% / /dev/ad0s3f 1488607 151 1369368 0% /tmp /dev/ad0s3g 12043560 2201761 8878315 20% /usr /dev/ad0s3e 496111 5192 451231 1% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc /dev/ad0s1 2096224 290272 1805952 14% /mnt It is just a squeak but I am past 12GB. I'm also using FreeBSD 4.0-Stable, which was installed from scratch. The ~15GB FreeBSD slice was added after a 2GB Fat16 and a 3GB NTFS in an extended partition. I assigned the partitions through /var by size and /usr was what was left. The FreeBSD slice was based on using what was left on the 20GB Maxtor. Kent > > If you can help, it would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Lanny Baron > > On Wed, 31 May 2000, Christoph Sold wrote: > > > > > > > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > 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 has it to the point: Use the tool that solves the job, not a side > > effect which reminds you of your problems. > > > > OTOH, in FreeBSD 3.x, the wd IDE driver had problems with partitions greater > > than 8GB. For FreeBSD 4.x some mails report problems with the ad IDE driver > > at about 32GB. YMMV. I do not know any such problem for SCSI disks. > > > > Have fun > > -Christoph Sold > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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