Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 20:16:49 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> Cc: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Like to commit my diskprep Message-ID: <3A037FA1.75B1C328@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10011021602500.10193-100000@login-1.eunet.no>
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Marius Bendiksen wrote:
>
> Not to bring out the paint early, but I have a suggestion, should the
> concept of hog partitions be introduced (regardless of whether you stick
> them in disklabel, diskpart, or yadisklabel3): make it possible to define
> multiple variable-sized partitions, with percentile ratio to use from the
> hog-space, ie.
>
> / 64m
> /var 128m
> /usr 50%
> /home 50%
>
> That would yield more flexibility, at a (hopefully) low additional cost in
> code.
With a 'disk hog' partition editor, this is simple to do. As you add each
partition, it shows you the amount of space now allocated to the disk hog.
If you have /home assigned as the disk hog, when you finish adding /, /var,
and swap space, simply choose about half of the space show for /home as
your space for /usr.
The same holds true for when you want, say 25% for /usr, 25% for /var, and
the rest for /home. Make /home the hog, add / and swap, then divide the
space in /home by 4. Add that much for /usr and /var and save.
All of these were well-known tricks on SunOS.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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