Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 14:13:57 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Mark.Hummel@hurlburt.af.mil Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's the Best "Slice" Option? Message-ID: <39888F15.E0DC932F@urx.com> References: <856532CB07BED3118FE300204840E28A0110766E@vexwncc02.hurlburt.af.mil>
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Mark.Hummel@hurlburt.af.mil wrote: > > I've decided to increase the size of my FBSD partition and while I'm at it, > will install 4.1 STABLE. I also think reinstalls are a great way to gain OS > experience fast. The last time (my first) I installed 4.0, I allowed the > pre-config program to "auto" slice the partition. Now, even though the > partition is 1087MB, the slice where /usr resides is reporting 104% full (df > -h). I was surprised because the only thing I installed was KDE, Netscape, > mtools, and the tcsh shell. > > Is auto the way to go or should I manually configure the slices? If anyone > recommends the manual method please explain how and why. Thanks. No but it is probably the best choice you have unless you have any idea what you want. I stuck everything into a single partition. I had multiple slices to overcome the 1024 cylinder rule but only one partition for /, which contained /usr, /var, /tmp, and etc. I started having an idea of what I wanted and got to tinkering. The last time I did a clean install, I allocated my drives thusly Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 99183 35742 55507 39% / /dev/ad3s1f 992239 523 912337 0% /tmp /dev/ad0s1e 11934818 3245427 7734606 30% /usr /dev/da0s1e 4102037 475624 3298251 13% /usr1 /dev/ad1s1e 2999774 1259377 1500416 46% /usr3 /dev/ad3s1e 496111 8001 448422 2% /var /dev/ad3s1g 11442450 5068504 5458550 48% /usr2 procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc I obviously overshot on a few :). /tmp is 1GB and 0% used. /var is 500MB and 2% used. I still like this setup because I have room for massive errors, which I try to account for. I have much less time to figure out what I want and HD's are cheap by comparison. / wouldn't be nearly that full except /sbin was added to it during the 4.1 builds. I cuss every time I look at it but I haven't tried to move it. A sign of how important it is :). One of the drives has a copy of the cvs tree for KDE and another has the cvs repository for FreeBSD. When you have free space, the possibilities are endless. I have some project in mind that will chew up most of the space. I just haven't installed them yet. I am also scanning and moving megabytes of images into /usr. Most have been optimized by Adobe's ImageReady to low quality so that no one can steal a good copy :). I have some historical photographs of my ancestors that are ~140 years old and a relative can have a raw copy by sending a postpaid zip disk. I think it may take a jaz to get them all by the time I'm done. Someone browsing from the WWW will only get to see 10% quality jpeg's. That is sort of like looking at the moon from an earthbound telescope instead of using the Hubble. Have a good day, Kent > > Mark > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ Bomber dropping fire retardant in front of Hanford Wild fire. http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/bomber.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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