From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 17 21:06:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA19289 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 21:06:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA19277 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 21:06:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA12334; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 21:05:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19971117210512.32531@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 21:05:12 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney To: "John S. Dyson" Cc: chuckr@glue.umd.edu, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning suggestions? References: <199711180211.VAA18014@earth.mat.net> <199711180335.WAA00619@dyson.iquest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <199711180335.WAA00619@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Mon, Nov 17, 1997 at 10:35:06PM -0500 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John S. Dyson scribbled this message on Nov 17: > I'd actually like to look into a mini-root system, to virtually eliminate the > need for a fixit floppy. That mini-root would not normally be mounted, but would > be there when you need it. I sure wish that floppies were always 100MB :-). why not dedicate 32megs of another hard drive to a backup root? I've now decided to put a 32meg root on all hard drives even if they aren't going to normally boot from... (what's 32megs from 2gigs? :) ) -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD