From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 14 02:23:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA25150 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 02:23:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA25145 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 02:23:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA22981; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 18:53:00 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id SAA15673; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 18:53:00 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980814185300.B15619@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 18:53:00 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new disk: partition recommendations? References: <199808140838.UAA09131@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199808140838.UAA09131@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 08:38:25PM +1200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 14 August 1998 at 20:38:25 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > Tomorrow I will be installing a new IDE disk. A new I/O controller will > also be going in because the current one will handle only two devices. > The present one is full handling my drive and CD-ROM. > > The drive is a 5G drive. The system acts as my gateway box. I'll > probably have an FTP server and a web server running. The current drive > is about 300M, of which about 50 are free. Most of the boxes on my net > are NT so I plan to install SAMBA to get some file sharing going. > > Any recommendations on how to partition this new drive? This is a second drive, right? That's simple: one partition. About the only thing you might want to consider is to add a second swap partition. FreeBSD is getting quite swap-hungry (it's a performance tradeoff, a reasonable on in my eyes), and you should aim to have at least 256 MB of swap. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message