From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 14 15:18:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA26817 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:18:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA26761 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:18:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA21950; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:17:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:17:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Dan Langille cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new disk: partition recommendations? In-Reply-To: <199808140838.UAA09131@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, 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? One giant FreeBSD partition. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message