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Date:      Fri, 7 Aug 1998 08:56:15 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: More pondering on new HD... ;)
Message-ID:  <19980807085615.J9620@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <35C9CF31.BC1C074F@graphnet.com>; from Roman Katsnelson on Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 11:43:45AM -0400
References:  <35C9CF31.BC1C074F@graphnet.com>

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On Thursday,  6 August 1998 at 11:43:45 -0400, Roman Katsnelson wrote:
> I am thinking of just wiping everything and resinstalling. Am I nuts?
> These are my reasons:
>
> 1) I want to upgrade to 2.2.7
> 2) I added a new hard drive and want /usr to share it
> 3) The box used to be for development and will now be strictly a server.
>
> So anyway, if I _do_ do this, this is what I will have:
>
> Master HD: 1.6 G
> Slave Hd: 4.3 G
>
> Here's what I want:
> /       100 M
> swap    300 M
> /var    32 M

Why?  With this ratio to /usr, it's better to forget /var and put it
in /usr.

> /usr    5.5 G
>
> In order to accomplish this I will need the /usr fs to span actual
> drives. Is this possible under 2.2.7?

No, unless you use ccd or vinum.  See http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html
for information about vinum.

Greg
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