Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 18:53:00 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new disk: partition recommendations? Message-ID: <19980814185300.B15619@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199808140838.UAA09131@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 08:38:25PM %2B1200 References: <199808140838.UAA09131@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>
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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 <cough> 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
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