Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 18:48:26 -0600 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "Michael J. Ruhl" <mruhl@network-alchemy.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: large hard drive Message-ID: <200008170048.e7H0mQh20792@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <399B3499.6A018F53@network-alchemy.com>
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On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 17:40:57 -0700 "Michael J. Ruhl" wrote:
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| Howdy,
|
| I am considering buying a 45G hard drive as a secondary drive in my
| server. It occured to me that there might be some limitations to the
| size of a hard drive for BSD so I thought I would ask the following
| questions. :)
|
| 1) Can I use the drive as one big slice?
| 2) Would it be better for (performance, maintance, etc) to carve the
| disk up into smaller slices?
|
| Thanks,
|
| Mike
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You can use the drive as one big slice if you choose to. You can also
carve it up if your application requires it. Personaly I'd make one big
partition, mount it as /disk/1 and then move things like /usr/src and
/usr/ports to it using pax and symbolic links.
chris
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