From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 11 17:19:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2160A37B920 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 17:19:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost.fedde.littleton.co.us [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.10.0.Beta12/8.10.0.Beta10) with ESMTP id e2C1IBC25189; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 18:18:11 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200003120118.e2C1IBC25189@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Mark J Tomko Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Chris Fedde Subject: Re: 2nd Disk, again In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 11 Mar 2000 12:59:23 EST." <20000311125923.A87949@prime.cs.ohiou.edu> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 18:18:11 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark J Tomko writes: +--------------- | Currently I have my system set up as follows: | Primary Master Drive: 6.4 GB hard drive | Primary Slave Drive: ATAPI CDROM | Secondary Master Drive: 4.3 GB hard drive | Secondary Slave Drive: Internal zip drive +--------------- You can setup all your root partitions on the first drive. They each require less than 100Meg each (bsd realy only needs 32Meg). You'll probably only need 1.5 Gbyte for /usr on each installed OS. Make /var a symbolic link to /usr/var or reduce /usr by 500M and use that for /var. With the two FreeBSD versions you are talking about and say two Linux distributions that is 4*100M + 4*1.5G = 6.4G. Share one swap partition between all the OSes as the first say 500M on the second master. Also set up so that they all mount the same UFS /home as the remainder of the second master drive. When you need more space in /usr for any given OS make a directory in the /home partition and put a symbolic link to it in the right place. Just my thoughts. chris __ Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message