From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 14 01:58:13 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95C27348 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 01:58:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darcsis@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pa0-f54.google.com (mail-pa0-f54.google.com [209.85.220.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 632938FC19 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 01:58:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f54.google.com with SMTP id bi1so4126876pad.13 for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:58:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:user-agent:x-envelope-to :mail-followup-to:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; bh=vGgAVxYS7BNIYMfwX8EGAmMbZEcxfNadJvH3kngxtF8=; b=HLr9n9lHtXx14GUWJuolu52KDvDWz2roUIqGI3dAczFEl8FzIaq9I8rdO0NvjTuPrH k61pxX7UmOKQqfUr6IPnr3AOmLhrQgb/FHZ7R0MxCNKT+O6V3ZW033OiChHBHZdsvEYI xpwHzpRprcvHm44KaW8qv8WzRV5OqSlq1I4gcaRW/rJUVg8g4tNsZwqrQXvNAtxMUz9i JIbAwcaCRU2UGqC0XazUYsZsH77xfZIy5P8/Hctzve6zySqVq+3SEkuZwzNSqT6jh6Dn GEVOYL3Kz1vSbtfttn3hY2s63Sq62NFO9UxJi9KOcihCATqThrNnYalBXyAl4mg7igag IzTw== Received: by 10.66.87.73 with SMTP id v9mr22535308paz.1.1350179892665; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:58:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([125.34.64.49]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ky6sm6778603pbc.18.2012.10.13.18.58.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:58:11 -0700 (PDT) From: darcsis@gmail.com (Denise H. G.) To: Jos Chrispijn Subject: Re: FreeBSD9 - Fresh install (2) In-Reply-To: <5079ABFA.8050607@webrz.net> (Jos Chrispijn's message of "Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:59:22 +0200") References: <5079ABFA.8050607@webrz.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (berkeley-unix) X-Envelope-To: jos@webrz.net Mail-Followup-To: Jos Chrispijn , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 09:58:03 +0800 Message-ID: <86wqyt7r2s.fsf@venux.xbsd.name> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 01:58:13 -0000 On 2012/10/14 at 01:59, Jos Chrispijn wrote: > > When setting up my 1TB harddisk for FreeBSD 9.0, I have some questions > about partioning: > I think of creating two partitions of 5Gb; one for the standard > FreeBSD file layour and a second one with a /backup slice on it. > Does this make sense? > > BR, > Jos Chrispijn > ................ If you intend to use ZFS, then backup would not be very difficult. I've just tried backing up my ZFS filesystem onto an external USB harddrive with just a few steps. -- 10 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD"