From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 7 17:34:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 947C337B405 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 17:34:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4497543FA3 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 17:34:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1047519282.f627b9@mired.org) Received: (qmail 79850 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2003 01:34:42 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 8 Mar 2003 01:34:42 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15977.18610.73055.331475@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 19:34:42 -0600 To: "Scott I. Remick" Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Mucked up partitions, can't boot In-Reply-To: <20030307220907.12046.qmail@web41104.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030307220907.12046.qmail@web41104.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.70 (Pensive) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <20030307220907.12046.qmail@web41104.mail.yahoo.com>, Scott I. Remick typed: > Doing another experimental 5.0-REL install where I mucked things up due to > partitioning by-hand. This is now becoming a learning experience on fixit et > al, so although this is just "for fun" I'd like to carry it through "the > hard way" vs just reinstalling. > > Anyhow, this system has 4 SCSI disks da0 through da3. I put / on da0, swap > on da1, split da2 50/50 with /var and /tmp, then /usr is on da3. For each > disk I chose A during slice setup to "use entire disk" but then partitioned > manually once that screen came up. You really should split swap up in that kind of situation. I.e. - put var and half of swap on da1, and tmp and the rest of swap on da2. The kernel will interleave swap usage across both spindles for better performance if you do that. > Anyone willing to help me learn and guide me from here? Thanks Well, you didn't describe a problem, and you didn't ask a question. It's hard to provide guidance without some indication of where you are and are trying to go. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message