From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Nov 3 19:16:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13F6437B4CF for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 19:16:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13rtp3-0000XA-00; Fri, 03 Nov 2000 20:16:49 -0700 Message-ID: <3A037FA1.75B1C328@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 20:16:49 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marius Bendiksen Cc: Randell Jesup , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Like to commit my diskprep References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message