From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 14 14:36:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17363 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:36:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17294 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:35:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA27350 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 09:35:27 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199808142135.JAA27350@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 09:35:27 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: new disk: partition recommendations? Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14 Aug 98, at 18:53, Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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. OK. That I will do. By coincidence, I have just finished reading chapter 12 of The Complete FreeBSD. I wish I'd bought this book before I'd installed FreeBSD. The time this book would have saved me! For example, if I'd read Chapter 11 before I installed my CD-ROM, I'd have not had the entry in my diary titled "Where did my file system go?". thanks. -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message